<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Chris Leonard <<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I do not like the idea of special casing en_au at all, the proper way to fix this is to get the i18n correct in the first place and not thrown in special cases. a) I thought that the Aussies were using the en_GB strings, which should have the dd/mm/yy format they are looking for, whcih it would if the string were not too difficult for localizers to figure out, both fo these strings are wrong and the comment is inadequate. en_GB <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en_GB/honey/clock.po?item=3&view_mode=translate" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en_GB/honey/clock.po?item=3&view_mode=translate</a> en_US <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en_US/honey/clock.po?item=3&view_mode=translate" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en_US/honey/clock.po?item=3&view_mode=translate</a> Besides the fact that localizers have difficulty wi h the markup, we shouldn't be asking localizers for time and date format at all, this should come directly from glibc locale LC_TIME Date format (d_fmt) field which is %m/%d/%Y for en_US and %d/%m/%y for en_AU cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator <div><div class="h5"> </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Hi Gary and Chris </div><div> </div><div>Thanks for the comments i agree with what both are saying, I had to do this change in order to clock get the proper ordering here, </div> <div>this is somewhat failing even thought the string is translated (en_GB) variant. </div><div>still I need to investigate cjl's resources.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div class="h5"> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Rafael Ortiz <<a href="mailto:rafael@activitycentral.com">rafael@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: > --- > clock.py | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/clock.py b/clock.py > index 1219aee..d368196 100755 > --- a/clock.py > +++ b/clock.py > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ from timewriter import TimeWriter > > import dbus > import os > - > +import locale > # The display modes of the clock > _MODE_SIMPLE_CLOCK = 0 > _MODE_NICE_CLOCK = 1 > @@ -133,12 +133,23 @@ class ClockActivity(activity.Activity): > # font size as for the time display. See > # <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html</a> for available > # strftime formats. xgettext:no-python-format > - self._DATE_SHORT_FORMAT = _("Write Date", > - '<markup>' + > - '%A, ' + > - '%m/' + > - '%d/' + > - '%Y</markup>') > + > + loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0] or 'en_AU' > + if loc == 'en_AU': > + self._DATE_SHORT_FORMAT = _("Write Date", > + '<markup>' + > + '%A,' + > + '%d/' + > + '%m/' + > + '%Y</markup>') > + else: > + self._DATE_SHORT_FORMAT = _("Write Date", > + '<markup>' + > + '%A, ' + > + '%m/' + > + '%d/' + > + '%Y</markup>') > + > > # Should we write the time in full letters? > self._write_time = False > -- > 1.7.9.5 > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>