System Date/Time Format Problems

[Pete]

I think I only described item 2 as a bug (and it definitely is).  Item 1 is
an enhancement request and item 3, who knows - it's  an "inconsistency",
which is not good.  New formats would be fine with me if they fix the
issues.

No doubt the mothership will categorise them however they see fit and take
the appropriate action.  Since they seem to be 99% focused on mobile
platforms right now (probably correctly), I'm not holding my breath for any
of them to be fixed any time soon.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 7/3/11 4:58 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> I think I already mentioned this but I've entered QC report number 9604
>> about all this.  There's various problems involved:
>>
>> 1) LC needs one more keyword so it can deal with the 4 date/time formats
>> used by OS X.
>> 2) There's a bug in the "abbrev system time" - it returns LC's default
>> abbrev format, not the format in any of the OS X user preferences.
>> 3) There's an inconsistency between the long system date and the long
>> system
>> time - the date returned is in the OS X full format, and the time is in
>> the
>> OS X medium format.
>>
>> These issues occur anywhere you refer to system dates and times, including
>> the convert command.
>>
>
> They aren't bugs, they're legacy formats that go back 20 years, and
> changing them would break a lot of stacks. When these date/time formats were
> implemented they matched the ones in Mac OS 6 and 7, and probably still
> matched in OS 9, though I don't remember.
>
> So rather than changing those, we should get new formats that represent
> more modern system options. This would be a feature request, so it would be
> good to update your report to reflect that.
>
>
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