| Summary: | Kfind feature request: iso date format in matching result | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kfind | Reporter: | phil4000n |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, nick |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 20.04 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Manjaro | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
phil4000n
2020-06-08 09:19:53 UTC
The worst is when you do a sort on the result date, as on my system it appears in format ddd mmm d hh:mm:ss yyyy so that a sort is day of the week first, aka all the Monday's, then the Tuesday's, etc. files while what you actually want is a sort on the date, viz first by years, then by months, then by days, then hours, then minutes, then by seconds Can confirm, standard repository installation version 19.12.3 on Ubuntu LTS 20.04 shows ddd mmm d hh:mm:ss yyyy as well. Impossible to get a fast grip on such a date format for most humans, especially with a long list of search results. Thankfor for a very handy file search tool. I recognise that date formatting is very limited in KDE5 by what is implemented in Frameworks, but using the system Long date format is just about the worst possibility for speedy comprehension when one is searching for a particular file. If it's not possible to have the ISO date, please could we have the system Short format instead of the Long one. The Long date is far from ideal. it requires a very wide column and the date/time fields are not in order of significance, making it a tedious and error prone process to read that column. Mention in passing that Running kfind 21.1.3, I do find that the long format dates/times sort correctly - I don't get the strict alpha sort that another poster mentioned. But as a search tool, the presentation gets in the way, sorry :-( kfind 21.1.3, Ubuntu 22.04 |