[digiKam-users] How to change date format

[Maik Qualmann]

The problem should be resolved in digiKam-7.4.0. In digiKam-7.3.0 we bound the 
date format to the language. 

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/
bf96a9fc3d980f3fefcdb6828a35130cb5931081

Maik

Am Dienstag, 16. November 2021, 23:26:38 CET schrieb Charlie Gorichanaz:
> I have the same question; it doesn't seem like Digikam is totally ignoring
> my LC_TIME variable but it's not matching what I expect.
> 
> If I launch like `*LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 digikam*`, my album dates end up
> like "*1/1/21 5:16 PM*". This is similar to `*LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 date '+%x
> %X'*` which gives me "*11/16/2021 02:12:13 PM*"
> 
> If I launch like `*LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 digikam*`, my album dates end up
> like "*1/1/2021 17.16*", which is closer to what I want but still not
> ordered like YYYY-MM-DD. When I run `*LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 date '+%x %X'*` I
> get "*2021-11-16 13:50:32*".
> 
> —
> Charlie Gorichanaz
> 
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:54 AM Thomas D <sdktda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > How do I change the date format digikam uses in album view?
> > 
> > It currently uses DD.MM.YYY, and I want ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD.
> > 
> > Example:
> > [image: image.png]
> > 
> > How does DK decide which format to use?
> > And where do I change it?
> > 
> > DK UI Language is set to US English. But this is not even US date format,
> > because it uses day before month.