Re: Setting the Format for Dates

FROM : Nicholas Riley
DATE : Wed Nov 20 18:12:35 2002

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:40:29PM +0100, Andreas Mayer wrote:
> I'm trying to localize time/date strings. This is what the
> documentation says, specifiers should do:
>
> %c    shorthand for "%X %x", the locale format for date and time
> %x    date using the date representation for the locale, including the
> time zone (produces different results from strftime())
> %X    time using the time representation for the locale (produces
> different results from strftime())
>
> Now %x, as well as %X give me:
>
> Di Nov 19 2002 23:29:00 Europe/Berlin
>
> While the language and the time format is correct, the date format is
> not. Besides, none of them should display date AND time, if I'm not
> mistaken.
>
> %c does the same. Same wrong format, too.
>
> Oh. The English 'localization' works as expected. <sigh>

Yup, this stuff is horribly broken.  There's a quick summary of most
of the bugs I've found at the top of this file:

<http://svn.sabi.net/repos/dev/trunk/Cocoa/Pester/Source/PSAlarmSetController.m>

and workarounds for -most- of the bugs (the only exception is date
formats getting corrupted, I don't really know how to deal with that
one since it affects Apple stuff such as the menubar clock too) here:

<http://svn.sabi.net/repos/dev/trunk/Cocoa/Pester/Source/NJRDateFormatter.m>

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        Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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