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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Date formats: YYYY-MM-DD
From:       Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2020-08-11 16:52:19
Message-ID: 12386193.qCHCiE4an0 () localhost ! localdomain
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вівторок, 11 серпня 2020 р. 19:45:53 EEST Yuri Chornoivan \
написано:
> вівторок, 11 серпня 2020 р. 19:19:56 EEST Koos Pol написано:
> > Op 11-08-2020 om 18:14 schreef Freek de Kruijf:
> > > > I couldn't find any reference how KDE deals with date formats
> > > > (YYYY-MM-DD, etc). Can someone enlighten me how that works, and what I
> > > > need to do to change the display format?
> > > > Within the KDE Systems Settings panel I do have some very limited
> > > > options on changing display aspects based on country. But that's about
> > > > it. I need some more flexibility regarding displaying dates.
> > > > 
> > > > It very much depends on what you specifically need to accomplish. Do
> > > > you
> > > > want to change the format in general or in a specific environment or
> > > > application?
> > > > 
> > > > Please be more specific.
> > 
> > The KMyMoney devs have explained to me that displaying dates draws from
> > KDE, and that whatever formatting is chosen from within KDE is used to
> > dispay dates in KMyMoney.
> > My problem is that I need YYYY-MM-DD formatting, while KDE only offers
> > DD-MM-YY for the NL locale.
> > 
> > Koos
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Plasma uses the current locale options only. The only way to obtain the
> desired result is changing the locale or editing the locale files (you can
> fix the locale to your needs using [1], recompile glibc once, then replace
> the default one with every system update). More on this here:
> 
> https://superuser.com/questions/1162283/use-iso-time-and-date-format-in-kde-> 5
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
> 
> [1] https://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/nl_NL/

Correction: it might happen that the things are much more complex:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/410844/how-to-hack-and-modify-a-predefined-date-time-format-of-kde-5-that-comes-with-de



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