On May 18, 2013 10:46 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcanto...@logossrl.com> wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 06:50:29AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > > What about an additional button in the dialog, like one of those [...] > > buttons you see next to a file entry field, but this one next to date. > > When clicked it stuffs current date into field. > > ? > > That would be easy to do (a 'Today' button)... however we need to decide > about the format for the date. strftime only does the locale 'numeric' > format for the locale (%x) which is ambiguous (01/02/2013 is january > 2 or february 1?) > > I only can think of: > > 1) Some fixed format like it was before (like %d %b %Y, which has > localized month names) or ISO format (%Y-%m-%d) > > 2) Fetch the locale preferred format strings and use it (only in wx2.9) > > 3) A user configured format string from the preferences (more work to > do, and have to find a good place for configuring it in both > eeschema/pcbnew) > > A good compromise would be 2) falling back to 1) on wx2.8. 3) could be > useful but completely user-unfriendly (raise your hand if you ever seen > one common user which knows strftime formats) > > We only have to choose how to handle this....
You have done the research. I am not informed on the details. I would probably look into busybox "date" source for ideas. > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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