[gobolinux-users] bugs.gobolinux.org annoyances

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:35:22 +0200, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:

> 2007/7/1, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net>:
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>> Guess what date 03-05-07 or 07-01-07 is. Is it month-day or day-month (I
>> never know, and do not wish to, in our international world), and is that
>> last thing a year (not a month or a day)?  Especially once the
>> bugtracker been around long enough that we don't know what year it is.
>> Eventually I was able to deduce "two digit month"-"two digit day"-"two
>> digit year" format.  If a date must be numerical, I argue that "four
>> digit year"-month-day is the only good unambiguous format.
>>
> Yes, internationilzation is one of the lacks of altiris. Not so much
> the date for me ,I have no real problem with mm-dd-yy as I've seen it
> much and do the conversion to yyyy-mm-dd almost automatically, if the
> date is obvious or when I know they use a "wrong" date format. But
> according to http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=1139 ISO-format
> (YMD) should be used.
>
The date is now ISO-8601 thanks to André Detsch. :)

> For me the innability to specify timezone is worse, because I don't
> have clue what for example 1:57 PDT is in my timezone.

This has a side effect that the time is easier to convert to your local
timezone, as in the standar the time is given with offset to UTC, not
which timezone it is.

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/Jonas

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