Date format trouble (locale)

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Montag, 10. August 2020 22:17:33 CEST Koos Pol wrote:

> 
> Op 10-08-2020 om 22:02 schreef Jack:
> 
> > It's worth opening a wishlist bug, just so this isn't forgotten in
> > case this thread doesn't lead to a definitive action.  You can list
> > several possible actions there, so it doesn't limit you to only one
> > choice.
> 
> Not a bad idea. I'll wait for a couple of days to see if this thread
> gains some more traction. If not I'll do that.
> 
> > Have you looked at the KDE SystemSettings tool - under
> > Personalization/Regional Settings/Formats, if you check Detailed
> > Settings, you can then hunt through all the possible locales just for
> > the Time setting.  You might be ablet o find one with a long format
> > similar enough to nl_NL, but a short format with four digit year.
> 
> Yeah, I found one, but than the date picker starts to look funny. So
> that sort of doesn't work ;-)
> 
> > Another possibility is to create a new locale, which you copy from
> > nl_NL and then modify the short format time setting.  I think I tried
> > this once (for a similar reason, if I remember) and although I don't
> > think I actually succeeded, it might be worth a new attempt.  It might
> > be possible to combine these two - create a new locale with your
> > desired short date format, and then just use that single format as a
> > change to the rest of nl_NL.
> 
> That would be bliss. Let me look into that!

I wondered how this would work for me using the German locale. There, the
date is also shown with two digit year information. And I was not able to
enter any date in the 20th century at all except using the date picker and
entering the year using 4 digits. That worked. See the attached screenshot
of the datepicker.

I then scanned the sources and could not find anything in KMyMoney but
the following comment in Qt:

  Note that if you specify a two digit year, it will be interpreted
  to be in the century in which the date time edit was initialized.
  The default century is the 21 (2000-2099).

That would explain the behavior I have seen. Not sure if KMyMoney can
override the date format of the locale in a way that Qt will pick it up.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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