[reports] Date format should not rely on the locale of the OpenERP server (e.g for month names)

[Christophe Hanon (www.adins.be)]

I changed the en_US default date to get the Month name : %B %d, %Y in
order to get February 13, 2011. I

First surprise: the month name seems to be taken from the locale of the
server - On ubuntu I realized this because my desktop was in French: so
I got février 2011 !

The same of course when you change the french date format you get the month name in english

I already documented this in https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/718040

And they fixed the 'easy' part of it. It remains that the server locale is used and we cannot print all date formats correctly. :

This was a comment from xrg

>>Sadly, this is a library issue, a bit hard to workaround:
>>the underlying glibc and python libraries that format these strings do NOT
>>take a language argument, but instead rely on the per-process environment
>>setting of LC_TIME or LANGUAGE.

>>This means that we might change the global setting of date format for all the
>> OpenERP server, but cannot specify per-report or per-client locale for dates.
>> So changing it there cannot be enough :(

But anyway this need to be cleaned. Thanks!

[Christophe Hanon (www.adins.be) (chanon)]

The provided fixed unlock the interface. But the issue of the locale for the textual name of the month remains. So I opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/729690

[Naresh(OpenERP) (nch-openerp)]

Hello,

Thanks for reporting !

It has been improved at lp:~openerp-dev/openobject-server/trunk-bug-729690-nch and will be merged soon to the trunk server.

Thanks,