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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 18, 2013 10:46 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.

>
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> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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