*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1768678 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768678
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1768678
regional settings are far too restrictive
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830613
Title:
Provide UI and API for customizing date/time formats
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Linux should be able to support customized date/time formats like
Microsoft Windows can. It is a hair-pulling experience to try to get
ISO 8601 date/time format implemented throughout a Linux desktop
install.
As mentioned in this Mozilla bug report at Comment 20
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907), developer Zibi
Braniecki says,
"Yes, we do more on Windows, than we do on Linux. The reason being that
Windows provides UI and API for us to read customized date/time patterns for
styles short/medium/long.
Which means that we can fetch the *pattern* from the OS, and
*localize* it using our own CLDR resources. This means, that if on
Windows you'll tell us you want a date "{day} {month} {year}", and in
Gecko you'll specify you want Polish language we'll present you a date
"25 sierpnia 2018", which will fit properly into your UI localization.
On the other hand on Linux, we do not have a way to retrieve a
pattern, that we could then localize."
This is terrible that Linux support for ISO 8601 date/time format is poor.
Please fix this!
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