[PATCH] date zero filling

[Nigel Titley]

Neil Williams wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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I agree with Neil, also as a UK gnucash user, that I would prefer not to 
have zero padding, except possibly in the year part of the date, which 
would normally be padded to two digits (at present).

>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".
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Agreed.

Nigel