[Kbabel] Why let the user select the date format of a PO file?

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Pondelok 03 Október 2005 16:07 Nicolas Goutte napísal:
> I have found out that the user can change the date format used in a PO file
> for the PO-Revision-Date entry.
>
> I wonder why such a feature would be useful. Even if msgfmt does not care
> while checking, it still means to create a variant of the PO file format,
> where the date is not machine-readable anymore.

The feature is there for quite a long time. Personally, I always use the 
default gettext date format.

Stano

>
> So I would prefer to remove this feature, already for KDE 3.5.
>
> If the goal is to have a nice date in the catalog manager view, it would be
> better to process the date parsed from the PO files. That woul allow
> additional features (in middle-term to long-term, so for KDE4):
> - intelligent dates ("today", "yesterday") like what exists in KMail
> - set a local date format (e.g. dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm)
> - unify the shown dates in one time zone (perhaps useful for world
> languages, like English, French and Spanish, where the translators could be
> from many time zones).
> - show non-Gregorian dates. (A translator would feel perhaps more easy if
> he can use a date system that he commonly use in his daily life.)
>
> Have a nice day!
>
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