[BUG] Dates (still) not following local format
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@mallen The date bug is fix already at least in 1.16.1279.3 it is. You now can select English (UK) in language settings and this will also fix the time/date issue in the download panel - after a restart of vivaldi.
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YAY!!! Looking forward to see this appear in the next official release.
A big Thank You to @miky and anyone else involved with this. Looking down at the date now it is confusingly warm for 9th April... hehe...
Also thanks @Gwen-Dragon for watching over this and helping poking it along.
It really is hard to explain as to quite how much of an effect something so "trivial" has been doing to my head!
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Sadly this does help only a very limited portion of the userbase. We need the option to set the date and time format freely.
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@luetage which languages are missing for you? Or are you chasing for a fully customisable date layout?
Having a broken American layout forced on all English speakers world wide was a bit weird. I think it is only the USAians who write the date in that backward Month\Day\Year layout. This left the rest of the English reading world confused. Today Vivaldi thinks it is the 9th of May 2018. (9/5/2018).
I think most of the European and Asian languages are in place. Seemed to have a pretty good list.
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@mallen I want to use ISO 8601. Anyway, it should be apparent that one singular option for British English doesn't solve anything for the rest of the world.
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@luetage said in [BUG] Dates (still) not following local format:
@mallen I want to use ISO 8601. Anyway, it should be apparent that one singular option for British English doesn't solve anything for the rest of the world.
This was addressing a year old bug report. The issue had been there since the earliest releases. This request also covers other English countries like Australia has been on the bug list for a while now.
Have you put in any request for ISO 8601?
I'm guessing you are after a fully customisable addition. I can see that taking longer.
If I had the choice of ISO 8601 then I'd probably also pick it. But then that is going to be mainly a handful of geeks like us.
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@mallen Yeah, there's already a feature request out for it. But my suspicion is this bug was fixed and therefore the issue is closed for now and we won't see something happening on that front for another 3 years.
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A fully user customisable date choice will be a lot more work than adding a few more countries to a supported list.
There is no need to see this bug fix as negative. The more someone looks around the code with respect to dates, the more likely you'll get someone starting on the work of the ultimate customisable date layout. Bug fixes should always be ahead of new features.
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@mallen I never said I think the bug fix is negative and I really don't know why you feel attacked by my comments. I'm glad your issue is resolved, but you should understand that different people have different needs and have a right to voice their opinion too. Take it easy.