| Summary: | Please, let date representation respect the format set by the Plasma Locale Time (LC_TIME environment variable) setting | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Anton Latukha <anton.latukha+reg> |
| Component: | view-engine: details mode | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kfm-devel, mpy, spamless.9v5xj |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 20.08.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: |
Settings -> Locale -> Detailed Settings
Dolphin date columns |
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Created attachment 133657 [details]
Dolphin date columns
A (not so) fun fact: Dolphin actually does respect the locale, and en_DK time is actually *not* supposed to be in ISO-8601, being seemingly a long-time POSIX bug/mistype that was never fixed. KDE seems to use its own locale files which follows what en_DK is "supposed" to be, which is the crappy DD/MM/YYYY format. To get KDE and by extension Dolphin to actually use ISO-8601, switch to en_SE instead. More info: https://www.localeplanet.com/icu/en-DK/index.html https://www.localeplanet.com/icu/en-SE/index.html |
Created attachment 133656 [details] Settings -> Locale -> Detailed Settings SUMMARY At least for "Created, Modified, Accessed" columns it seems to not respect the `LC_TIME` environment variable. For example, `LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8` is set, which corresponds to ISO 8601 date format ("YYYY-MM-DD"): ```shell # date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] # %x locale's date representation date +%x 2020-11-26 ``` But date in the application gets represented as "DD/MM/YY". It does not make sense, since main locale setting set is `LANG=en_US.UTF-8`, so, if the application ignores `LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8`, it must use `LANG=en_US.UTF-8` (and the same `en_US` is in the Dolphin's "Settings -> Configure language". so US date must be "MM/DD/YY", but what gets shown is `DD/MM/YY`. Plasma Locale settings is in the attached screenshot. Shell results: ```shell locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_ALL= localectl System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=uk_UA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=uk_UA.UTF-8 VC Keymap: us X11 Layout: us X11 Model: pc105 ``` STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Reproduce the Locale settings form the "Settings -> Locale -> Detailed Settings" screenshot attached 2. Reload. 3. Run Dolphin. 4. Select "Details view mode" 5. Add columns "Modified" OR "Created" OR "Accessed" 6. Observe a date format. 7. Compare it to `date +%x` output. OBSERVED RESULT Format of date: "DD/MM/YY" EXPECTED RESULT Format of date: Short ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD), or longer ISO format versions, preferably "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM". SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0 Qt Version: 5.15.1