[PATCH] date zero filling

[Neil Williams]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 5:59 pm, Andreas Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not care about design, like whether date printing should be in
> libqof, right now. 

There may need to be some but probably not all that is currently in place - 
the gnc-date doxygen documentation says as much. The issue will be resolved 
during the life of libqof1 but probably not until after G2 because the 
decisions would require too much discussion here about where the functions 
should go and how to handle backwards-compatibility in programs like GnoTime 
that use these functions. Let's slate that discussion for part of the wider 
discussions on QOF once we have a G2 release.

> This is rather a straight forward patch to make 
> the dates look like the strings in the Date/Time section of the
> GnuCash preferences dialog. It adds zero filling to day and month in
> dates and times for UK, CE and US

Personally, as a gnucash user in the UK, I'd much rather *not* have zero 
padding on data entry or data display of UK date formats.

There is no UK consensus on whether 04/02/06 is preferable to 4/2/6 or 4/2/06. 
It's a "problem" of the 21st century where single digit years can cause 
confusion. In my business life, all three of the above are perfectly 
acceptable, whether on casual notes or official documents.

> . This may not catch every 
> appearance, but the register is much more appealing to me than
> without it.

Which makes the patch subjective - leading to a probable need for some kind of 
configuration option. David - is there a HIG issue here?

> Feel free to apply any subset of it.

I feel we should look at this as a possible config option and bounce the idea 
around on gnucash-user before assuming that zero padding is the "Right Thing 
To Do".

-- 

Neil Williams
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