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

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:40, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> 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.

I have thought more about the problem. Perhaps it is not the right time to 
remove so much code from KBabel (as removing code can create bugs too).

So probably the problem will have to be checked for KDE4.

Have a nice day!

>
> 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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