Version: (using Devel) Compiler: 4.3.3 OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources SystemSettings Locale Date Format set to: WEEKDAY MONTH dD YYYY and the Digital Clock says: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 While it is OK for the Digital Clock Settings to modify the string set in SystemSettings. That is, to remove WEEKDAY or YYYY, it does need to start with the string set there. With the above string, the Digital Clock should say: TUESDAY 9 JUNE 2009 Note that it might be a good idea to add additional date strings to SystemSettings, but that is another issue.
this has been discussed previously; the clock date and the system date format are only weekly relatable.
Re: Comment #1 Your statement makes no sense (and that is being nice about it). If your team designed it wrong, then redesign it! IAC, the fact that it says: 9 Jun rather than Jun 9 with a US locale is a bug. IAC, might I suggest that instead of making lame excuses or reclassifying bugs as wish list items that you simply fix them, or say that you are unable to fix it. Why should users go to the trouble of reporting bugs if you are simply going to (incorrectly) claim that they are not bugs? It theory you could reclassify all bugs that don't result in crashes as wish list items. E.G. "I wish that X worked correctly", but that is absurd.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162368 ***
Re: original report: Obviously, I meant to say: With the above string, the Digital Clock should say: TUESDAY JUNE 9 2009 The fact that the US locale is not correct is clearly a bug.
(In reply to comment #1) > this has been discussed previously; the clock date and the system date format > are only weekly relatable. Please refer to: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158786#c11
Created attachment 35009 [details] Screen Shot from experimental code This is a real screen shot, not a mock up. For vertical panels (which this is) it appears to me that the day of the week, if shown, should be on the first line and the rest of the date should be on the second. Horizontal panels will need to be different and/or dependent on the panel size.
Created attachment 35585 [details] Clock with date formated by KDEGlobal Locale information This seems to work OK.
closing as per last comment
(In reply to comment #8) > closing as per last comment That screen shot is using my experimental code which has not been committed because it is not completed.
Lets keep all the date format issues under one bug. This is being fixed for 4.4, code is currently on reviewboard and will hit trunk in next day or two. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162368 ***
This bug is not related to bug 162368 since this is actually a bug (NOT a wishlist -- please change this back to a bug) because this is about something which does not work correctly and 162368 is a request for a new feature.
*** Bug 174334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This issue is still present in 4.6-beta1. I agree that it should be classified as a bug. Why should the clock applet not conform to the system date format? First off, there is no way at present to change the date format in the clock applet. One can only add or remove seconds, date, year, etc. Second, I would bet that 99.9% of users would expect the system locale settings to apply to the clock. I'm not ranting, just bumping this. I think it deserves attention. :-)
SVN commit 1211756 by mrnjavac: Obey locale KCM settings for date format in the Digital Clock Plasma applet. BUG:195837 BUG:247277 BUG:162368 M +5 -1 CMakeLists.txt M +61 -37 clock.cpp M +2 -3 clock.h M +44 -173 clockConfig.ui WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1211756