Timestamps in Unity previews don't respect the locale date & time format

[Jeremy Bícha]

Timestamps in Unity previews are showing in this format:
2012-09-14 23:18

But my locale (en_US) date format is:
$ date +"%x %X"
09/14/2012 11:18:28 PM

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Sun Sep 23 21:41:39 2012
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

actually for me its in 09/14/2012 format and my locale is: en_US

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Omer, which version of Unity are you running? I'm just using what's in Quantal.

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

In my case, it shows 2012-04-25 in previews and in the same format when using date. Weird.

My locale:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Or, it's highly probable that Unity was hard-coded to respect Canadian/British style of writing dates, but then again, that doesn't bode well with what Omer says.

I'm using the same version of Unity Jeremy is using, so I'll upgrade to trunk and set my locale to US to see if it makes any difference.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Even with Unity trunk, I get 2012-09-14 with en_US.UTF-8, the same as en_CA I reported earlier. So it's definitely a problem with the previews.