So, after looking into this, I didn't have to get into too many
languages before realizing there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution that
can be addressed in the source code.
For example, I the code /could/ check nl_langinfo(D_FMT) to see whether
the month or day goes first, and that would solve the MM DD YYYY <--> DD
MM YYYY complaints that are part of this ticket.
However there are all kinds of other issues and combinations, for
example en zh_CN the weekday should go after the date, rather than
before, and always prefers year-month-day rather than day-month-year or
month-day-year. And there are several other issues.
In the end, I think this has got to be fixed on a locale-by-locale basis
by the translators. However, indicator-datetime's code /can/ make this a
lot less painful / more likely to actually happen. I've added copious
translator comments to lp:~charlesk/indicator-datetime/lp-1001595 to
help make this happen.
** Changed in: indicator-datetime
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001595
Title:
Clock does not respect regional settings
Status in The Date and Time Indicator:
In Progress
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
The clock unity applet (or indicator) have an option to show a date.
Regional settings are set to show the date as "19 may", but the clock
shows "may 19" instead. After clicking on a clock, in a calendar, it
shows properly — 19 may 2012.
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