Bug 183579 - Digikam uses incorrect time format in the title/tags tab
Summary: Digikam uses incorrect time format in the title/tags tab
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Albums-MainView (show other bugs)
Version: 0.10.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-02-07 18:06 UTC by Richard Bos
Modified: 2012-06-27 09:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 2.5.0
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Incorrect time format in title/tags tab (13.67 KB, image/gif)
2009-02-07 18:07 UTC, Richard Bos
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Description Richard Bos 2009-02-07 18:06:33 UTC
Version:           0.10.0-rc1 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0) "release 88.4", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.7-9-pae

Digikam uses incorrect time format (for me at least ;) ) in the title/tags tab.  I configured KDE to use show me times in 24hour format.  However, Digikam use the AM/PM format.  As I'm not used to this format I have not idea weather the photo is taken in the morning or the afternoon/evening...

Please, use the expected time format in the title/tags tab.  See attachment for the precise location.
Comment 1 Richard Bos 2009-02-07 18:07:56 UTC
Created attachment 31088 [details]
Incorrect time format in title/tags tab

Added screenshot.
Comment 2 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-02-07 21:14:18 UTC
Digikam uses a standard Qt widget here, QTimeEdit. This formats the time according to your system locale.
KDE settings are not honoured, there is no "KTimeEdit" currently in kdelibs (there is one in kdepimlibs, unknown to me why not in kdelibs).

I can reproduce your problem by setting "LANG=en_US" for example.
Check your settings in Yast2 -> System -> Language.
Comment 3 Richard Bos 2009-02-07 21:52:47 UTC
Hi Marcel,

I understand what you're saying, and you're indeed correct in your assumption
that my LANG is set to en_US, but that should not determine the time
format in KDE.  That should than be determined by:

# locale | grep -i time
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

Do you happen to know, whether this is the case indeed for QTimeEdit?

It's a pity that you changed the bug status to Resolved Downstream, and so
blocking the way to use this bug to get a KTimeEdit into kdelibs.

Is it possible for you to change the product to kdelibs or kdepim to ask
them (the respective developers of kdelibs or kdepim) to develop KTimeEdit
in kdelibs?

I don't want to change the LANG setting, I have been working for years with this
on the shell it should not be necessary to change this to let a kde program behave nicely.

Thanks for your support!
Comment 4 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-02-07 23:22:54 UTC
You could create a new entry (wish) for kdelibs asking for a KTimeEdit equivalent of QTimeEdit that looks just as QTimeEdit but honors KDE settings.
I'm not completely convinced of the kdepimlibs version, it is optimized for entering appointments etc.

Qt widgets use QLocale, which is determined by the LANG variable. It's just if you set LANG to en_US, you are expected to want American time formats ;-)
Comment 5 Richard Bos 2009-02-07 23:42:13 UTC
Opened request for KTimeEdit, the bugzilla number is:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183630
Comment 6 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-02-08 16:13:24 UTC
So we can close this report finally?
Comment 7 Richard Bos 2009-02-08 17:31:41 UTC
If you ask me the answer is: no.  Because the time is still presented in the
wrong format.  This bug report is no dependent on bug 183630.  When that is
added to kdelibs, this bugreport can be fixed (hopefully it will be
sufficient to change a Q in K).  But that is when you ask me.  If you think
different about this, it is your call.
Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2009-06-24 05:12:11 UTC
QDateTimeEdit has a setDisplayFormat() that can be used to change the display/input format. Per default, it uses the locale specific format. See also QLocale::dateTimeFormat() and similar functions.
Comment 9 caulier.gilles 2011-12-14 09:30:44 UTC
Richard,

This file still valid using digiKam 2.x serie ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 10 Richard Bos 2011-12-14 20:12:17 UTC
Gilles,

problem is solved :)  The bug report can be closed.

Thanks.