Indicators should send timestamps, not pre-formatted strings

[Michał Sawicz]

Some indicators send pre-formatted strings, when they should be sending unix timestamps, to be formatted by the UI according to locale / timezone / user preferences.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate for the design spec.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

I don't believe this actually affects indicator-datetime (Ubuntu), as datetime is sending timestamps and format strings, rather than preformatted time strings.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Hm. Actually the menuitems are timestamps, but indicator-datetime's header is a preformatted string -- we could prevent some bus traffic by changing that to a timestamp as well. We'd need to add a new entry (say, "time-title") to the header dictionary that the indicators pass over, and Unity 8 would need to check for that and if found use it instead of the dict's standard "title" entry.

Saviq, does that sound alright to you?

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

indicator-messages uses time stamps for all times.