>>>>> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Juergen> Joost Verburg wrote:
>> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > %e is not the same as %d, see my
>> comment on bugzilla.
>> 
>> There is indeed a minor difference. %#d on Windows should be like
>> %e on UNIX.
>> 
>> Why not use %x for both, which gives the date representation
>> appropriate for the current locale?

Juergen> Hm, yes, would be fine with me (i.e. %A, %x), even though the
Juergen> output is different to what we have now, of course. In the
Juergen> long term, I think we should provide different possibilities,
Juergen> like most word processors do ("Tuesday", "Tuesday, October 24
Juergen> 2006", "Tuesday, 24/10/2006", "24/10/2006" etc.). And I think
Juergen> we'd need to translate between the differing arguments of the
Juergen> original unix strftime and the ms rip-off nevertheless (i.e.
Juergen> %e <-> %#d etc.).

Can boost do that for us?

We could also set the date format in lyxrc.dist and be done with it.

JMarc

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