orage clock - date format and calendar

bbkr · 2006-10-05 18:51:03

- how to change date format to european one on Orage Clock?? so it's DD-MM-YY instead of MM-DD-YY (which is really confusing if you're not used to this notation)
- how to make Orage Clock calendar start with monday instead of saturday??

fatcat · 2006-10-06 14:06:13

Orage obeys your operating system settings automatically.
It does not allow changing those defaults.

is you date command in shell in correct format? Then Orage should be, too.

fatcat · 2006-10-06 14:09:47

Hmm. or do you actually mean orage clock panel plugin?

I use %x as date and that gives me
dd.mm.yyyy

SimonJ · 2006-10-06 14:34:52

If I double click the panel part of Orage I get the calandar, if I then add an entry (New Appointment) the dates are all back to front, today it shows as 10/06/06 where as clearly the date should be 6/10/06.

hth

fatcat · 2006-10-06 15:26:27

What does these commands output:
date
locale

start a terminal and give those there. Orage really should use the same format than os and it works for me.

bbkr · 2006-10-06 22:37:57

THANKS!!

bbkr@bbkr ~ $ date +%x
10/07/06
bbkr@bbkr ~ $ export LC_TIME="pl"
bbkr@bbkr ~ $ date +%x
2006-10-07

works!!

also replacing %x with %F in Orage Clock properties does the same trick

SimonJ · 2006-10-07 07:28:09

fatcat wrote:

What does these commands output:
date
locale
start a terminal and give those there. Orage really should use the same format than os and it works for me.

$ date
Sat Oct 7 15:27:48 WST 2006

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

TIA

fatcat · 2006-10-07 13:43:40

Simon,

When I set your locale:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

I get
date +%x
07/10/06

and this is the format orage also uses in appointments.

try starting orage from the shell (remember to really stop it before that ctrl-Q instead just hiding it.).
Perhaps your LANG setting is different in the default Xfce environment so that date format differs.

SimonJ · 2006-10-08 03:19:25

The orage clock in the panel is set to show %x and correctly displays 08/10/06 but still the calendar entry shows 10/08/2006 right next to that, it shows my timezone as Australia/Perth so it knows where I am.

Thanks,

fatcat · 2006-10-08 12:47:49

You are right! Sorry for the confusion.

Date format in appointments is actually defined like this:
date_format = _("%m/%d/%Y");

The idea was that each translator could define the best format for each language.
Unfortunately there is no translation for en_AU, so the default is used.

We need to get en_AU added and the format changed to %d/%m/%y. Before that
there is no way to get this to work.

This will appear in 4.4 RC2 (it is in svn now).

SimonJ · 2006-10-09 09:16:53

It's so great that it's that easy to get a problem resolved.

Thanks once again,

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