Bug 156360

Summary: clock applet ignores system date format
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Peter Lunicks <plunix>
Component: widget-clockAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, emilsedgh, plunix, sven.burmeister, tyrerj
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Peter Lunicks 2008-01-22 06:00:25 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc-4.0.3 
OS:                Linux

The clock applet in KDE 4.0.0 ignores the KDE system-wide date format settings.
KDE 3's clock applet used the date format settings and was more usable.
The clock always uses "21 Jan" or "21 Jan 2008" (depending on whether 'show year' is selected.
It should either 1) Use KDE system-wide date format settings
or even better, 2) have a configurable option to a) use KDE system settings or b) a user-specified format.

Not to mention the fact that the clock *looked* better in KDE 3...
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2008-01-22 10:25:02 UTC 
There is no kicker and kdesktop in KDE 4, but plasma.
Comment 2 Alex Merry 2008-01-22 11:58:38 UTC 
This is fixed in 4.1 and 4.0.1.
Comment 3 Peter Lunicks 2008-01-25 05:25:30 UTC 
Yeah Pino, that's the main problem :(
kicker was the best panel ever designed for any operating system/desktop environment to date. It had become very mature, was extremely configurable, and very convenient and easy to use. It is a horrible shame that it has been dropped from KDE.

BTW: Did I use the word 'kicker' in my original post? I don't see it.

Alex: glad to hear that, thanks.
Comment 4 Dan Meltzer 2008-01-25 06:21:56 UTC 
I don't believe this is fixed, we fixed the time, but the date couldn't be fixed for some reason? Reopening.
Comment 5 S. Burmeister 2008-01-25 09:16:53 UTC 
I used KGlobal::locale()->formatDate() before replacing it by the digital-clock's way of formating the date, could that help?
Comment 6 Alex Merry 2008-01-25 23:18:31 UTC 
*** Bug 156362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 James Richard Tyrer 2008-02-05 18:51:54 UTC 
In TRUNK

I don't see AM or PM when time format is: "PH:MM:SS AMPM"
Comment 8 James Richard Tyrer 2008-02-09 15:15:27 UTC 
This appears to have been fixed.
Comment 9 James Richard Tyrer 2008-02-09 15:43:33 UTC 
I note that the weekday is always shown in the short format even if the system setting is the long format.  KDE3 always uses the long format even if the system setting is for the short format.

Should we consider this a bug?
Comment 10 James Richard Tyrer 2008-02-09 16:31:37 UTC 
My mistake.  It still says 9 Feb with the Local set to US.
Comment 11 Albert Astals Cid 2008-06-27 17:21:57 UTC 
No, it has not been fixed, it uses QDate which uses the system locale, not the KDE locale, it needs to use KGlobal::locale()->formatDate()
Comment 12 Albert Astals Cid 2008-06-28 14:57:41 UTC 
SVN commit 825509 by aacid:

Make KLocale do the translations and not QDate, that way we get translations using KDE locale, not the system locale

BUGS: 156360


 M  +9 -4      clock.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=825509