Order of month and day of month are reversed

[Rodolphe Braud]

mer. mai 2 12:04
Should be : mer. 2 mai 12:04

Impossible to modify.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Could you translate mer. and mai for us? Thanks!

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

It's short for Mercredi, as in "Wed May 2"

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Confirmed, the issue is coming from indicator-datetime/src/utils.c's generate_format_string_full() code, which uses this as a format string for strftime: "%a %b %e"

Where:

       %a The abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale.
       %b The abbreviated month name according to the current locale.
       %e The day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space. (SU)

which is fine for some locales, but probably %b and %e should be reversed in some locales.

IMO this would best be handled by the translation replacing the default string with a more appropriate one.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Marking the indicator-datetime component of this as Invalid because I don't believe this requires any code-level changes for the fix. Please reopen for i-d if I'm mistaken.

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

It is possible to change this in the translation:
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/indicator-datetime/+pots/indicator-datetime/fr/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=%25e

[Nicolas Delvaux (malizor)]

The French translation is displayed as it should on my Precise box.

@Rodolphe: please check the language panel in system settings, you (or someone) may have mess something here.

[Anne017 (anneonyme017)]

Fix released in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (see attachment).

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-datetime/+pots/indicator-datetime/fr/5/+translate