Request to add formatInterval to klocale

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 12:54, Hans Meine wrote:
> On Sunday 10 December 2006 10:22, John Tapsell wrote:
> > In english you say  "1.00 hours"  rather than "1.00 hour".  Would it
> > be the same for other languages?
> 
> Yes, in German you need a singular form.
> 
> Also, I would prefer to avoid the trailing zeros.
> "2.00 hours" -> "2 hours"
> 
> In fact, in German numbers up to twelve should maybe be expressed with words, 
> not with digits:
> "1.00 Stunden" -> "1 Stunde" -> "eine Stunde"

I disagree.

That "rule" taught to us in schoool was for prosa and for letters. I 
think in a computer program we can savely ignore it without committing
any crime against German linguistics. And in lists where numbers are 
compared to each other, numbers should be expressed with digits, not 
with words.