Bug 359191

Summary:	aKregator does not honor LC_TIME / date and time in wrong format
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Arek Guzinski <kermit>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	geoffm, montel, piny
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot

Description Arek Guzinski 2016-02-09 16:44:12 UTC

Version: 5.0.3

the date and time are displayed in US format (mm/dd/yy hh:mm AM/PM) instead of german format (dd.mm.yy HH:mm).

output of $ env | ack-grep '^L[AC]' | sort

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8



Reproducible: Always




date and time are correctly displayed in other applications ( tested with dolphin(15.08.03), konqueror (4.14.13), kmail(5.0.3) )

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2016-02-09 17:23:27 UTC

screenshot please

Comment 2 Arek Guzinski 2016-02-09 17:46:03 UTC

Created attachment 97111 [details]
Screenshot

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2016-02-10 05:58:09 UTC

it used code for translated date: => for sure it will work
it's not a bug in akregator.
I saw in your screenshot that all is in english so it's the problem.
           return KLocale::global()->formatDateTime(article.pubDate(),
                    KLocale::FancyShortDate);
 
You need to verify your kde settings.
Perhaps install german language in your distro

Comment 4 Arek Guzinski 2016-02-10 20:36:03 UTC

ok, i see the problem now...

> I saw in your screenshot that all is in english so it's the problem.
yes, it is. and it should be, because, for several reasons, i prefer english as my interface language. However, i really really hate the US/UK date format, which is why i set my time to de_DE (btw: yes, i live in germany)

i had a quick look at the dolphin source code, where QLocale is used, which displays the date the way i want it (dd.mm.yyyy). But QLocale does not support anything like KLocale::FancyShortDate.
As FancyShortDate uses words, it seems to get its locale settings from the LANGUAGE variable, instead of LC_TIME.

i think the correct way to handle this would be to use LANGUAGE for the words and LC_TIME for the rest (as, i believe, it was in kde 4) which is, of course, an issue for the kf5 libraries and not a bug in akregator. I'll file a report there.

Comment 5 Geoff M 2016-08-04 04:27:41 UTC

Akregator displays dates as DD/MM/YY hh:mm AM/PM
it's supposed to display time in EN_CA format - YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm AM/PM as configured in my time format.
Don't know why this is still unconfirmed?

Comment 6 Arek Guzinski 2025-04-06 18:14:52 UTC

This has been properly working for a while now.