The kde plasmoid Birthday List [1], shows upcoming birthdays and other celebrations. It shows when the birthday will be in a short date format, e.g. dd-mm. The plasmoid provides a configuration dialog for this, while KDE should actually offer this to the plasmoid. Please provide an additional (very) short date format in the kcm language (region) module, to be used by other applications (of course ;) ). There are plenty of formats possible: dd.mm dd-mm dd/mm dd.mm. d.m. etc The Birthday List plasmoid homepage [1] provides screenshots how the currently (very) date format looks like and how the plasmoid is configured. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Birthday+List?content=121134 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the kcm language module -> date format tab 2. Only a long date format e.g. dd-mm-yyyy is offered Actual Results: Only a long date format e.g. dd-mm-yyyy is offered Expected Results: Expected is that it is possible to configure a short date format e.g. dd-mm, dd.mm. It is difficult to strip the year from the currently short date format, as one does not know the format. Is it dd.mm.yyyy or perhaps yy/mm/dd, etc??
Please clarify: Do you want a third combo box for (new) applications asking that they do not need the year, or do you want additional entries in the existing combo boxes, so that the short date format is automatically used by (existing) applications?
I thought of adding an additional field where one can configure the (very) short date format. This new date format can than be used by applications. In case of kbirthday list, it would ask for the new date format, and use this format (instead of having its own date format settings tab).
The date and time tab in system settings (module locale) has the following fields (with my proposal added and marked as <new>): Time format: AM-sign: PM-sign: Long date format: WEEKDAY dD MONTH YYYY Short date format: DD/MM/YY <new> Very short date format: DD/MM Number set: The very short date format can be (in some countries): dd.mm. So, just having an indicator to leave the year may not give a good result. As in some other countries it could be dd.mm Hence my proposal for new field, that can be populated as one desires... I hope the previous and this update makes it clear, what my wish is.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 297913 ***