History: time not in correct form

[Greg A]

Binary package hint: software-center

According to the wiki [1] ' The time should be of the form “4:08 PM”. ' however in the 10.10 Software Centre the form "19:21:38" is used. I certainly believe the seconds should be removed, presumably the 12 hour clock was also chosen for a reason.

Note: I guess the ideal would be to read this from a system wide setting somewhere.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#History section

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 7 17:54:34 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

IIRC, when I implemented the history view I didn't fully respect the specification because of the lack of a way to express the time in a localized form without including the seconds.

All python offers is the "%X" format [1]: "locale’s appropriate time representation".

As to using the 12 hour clock, it's not correct in all locales, so I expect the specification implicitly means "where applicable". mpt, can you confirm?

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

It seems that a common, clean solution to overcome python's limitations is to do the following:

    t.strftime(_('%H:%M'))

and have translators for each language provide the suitable format for the string, e.g. '%I:M %p' for en_US, and '%H:%M' for fr_FR.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note that if British English is considered as the default (untranslated) language for the UI, then to honour the specification the default format to be localized by translators should be '%I:M %p', not '%H:%M'.

Also note that an explicit comment should be added for translators to understand what is expected.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

In fact, '%I:%M %p' is still not the best option, as the hour is zero-padded, thus does not exactly match the "5:44 PM" specified in the specs, it will look like "05:44 PM". Does anyone know of a way how to use space-padded hours instead of 0-padded?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 3.1.25

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software-center (3.1.25) natty; urgency=low

  [ Kiwinote ]
  * data/ui/SoftwareCenter.ui:
    - mark the back/forward actions as translatable (LP: #742129)
  * softwarecenter/db/database.py,
    softwarecenter/models/appstore.py,
    softwarecenter/view/availablepane.py,
    others:
    - make custom lists work (LP: #712903)
  * softwarecenter/app.py,
    softwarecenter/distro/Ubuntu.py,
    softwarecenter/view/widgets/pathbar_gtk_atk.py:
    - when the supported filter is set to supported_only, navigate up if:
      - we are in a details view of an app which is not supported (LP: #480827)
      - we are in a list view which becomes empty
  * softwarecenter/app.py,
    softwarecenter/view/catview_gtk.py:
    - correctly count the nr of apps displayed in the recommended category and
      update it when needed (LP: #735634)
    - only display subcategories if they are non-empty (LP: #419270)
  * softwarecenter/backend/weblive.py:
    - don't crash if we try to delete a non-existent file (LP: #743511)
  * softwarecenter/db/reviews.py,
    softwarecenter/distro/Ubuntu.py:
    - fallback to ReviewLoaderJsonAsync when we can't use multiprocessing
      (LP: #741069)
    - fixes to make ReviewLoaderJsonAsync 'work' (ie most common cases)
  * softwarecenter/db/update.py:
    - don't import softwarecenter.log
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - don't draw random boxes when we have an error layout (LP: #739269)
    - retire share button as we now have full microblogging support in the
      review dialog (LP: #592619, LP: #743765)
  * softwarecenter/view/appview.py:
    - correctly refresh listview when supported filters are changed
  * softwarecenter/view/catview.py:
    - if a category has subcategories, then category.query should include all
      items included in the subcategories, not a subset of these
  * softwarecenter/view/widgets/pathbar_gtk_atk.py:
    - avoid having a half-height pathbar (LP: #743614)
  * refresh .pot file

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * softwarecenter/view/widgets/reviews.py:
    - fix crash if app_version is not defined when
      calling upstream_version_compare (LP: #746120)
  * softwarecenter/view/purchaseview.py:
    - disconnect webkit signal handlers when the webkit view
      is not showing (LP: #696861)
    - support 'user_cancelled' from the software-center-agent
      (LP: #641321)
  * softwarecenter/view/softwarepane.py,
    softwarecenter/view/widgets/actionbar.py:
    - animate the action bar show/hide
  * softwarecenter/view/appview.py:
    - in the AppViewFilter, also consider apps in the for-purchase
      channel as available; this allows them to show up in
      e.g. What's New (LP: #746679)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * softwarecenter/db/update.py:
    - ensure the iconname that comes from the software-center-agent
      does not contain a ".", the icon cache gets confused otherwise
  * merged lp:~evfool/software-center/sfix672229, many thanks to
    Robert Roth (LP: #672229)
  * merged lp:~alexeftimie/software-center/fix-704719-briefly-wrong-display,
    many thanks to Alex Eftimie (LP: #704719)
  * softwarecenter/view/purc...