Provide UI and API for customizing date/time formats
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Linux should be able to support customized date/time formats like Microsoft Windows can. It is a hair-pulling experience to try to get ISO 8601 date/time format implemented throughout a Linux desktop install.
As mentioned in this Mozilla bug report at Comment 20 (https:/
"Yes, we do more on Windows, than we do on Linux. The reason being that Windows provides UI and API for us to read customized date/time patterns for styles short/medium/long.
Which means that we can fetch the *pattern* from the OS, and *localize* it using our own CLDR resources. This means, that if on Windows you'll tell us you want a date "{day} {month} {year}", and in Gecko you'll specify you want Polish language we'll present you a date "25 sierpnia 2018", which will fit properly into your UI localization.
On the other hand on Linux, we do not have a way to retrieve a pattern, that we could then localize."
This is terrible that Linux support for ISO 8601 date/time format is poor. Please fix this!
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
