Bug#311620: clock-applet: localized japanese time/date format is bizarre

[Miles Bader]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.10.1-2
Severity: normal


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My LANG is set to "ja_JP.UTF-8", so the clock-applet uses a localized
time/date format.  However, the format it uses is really weird --
non-standard, and actually rather hard to read.

Here's what it looks like:

    =E6=9C=A8  6=E6=9C=88  2, 6:27 =E5=8D=88=E5=BE=8C

Notice the that the "2" (the date) is follow simply by a comma which
makes it run together with the time; japanese dates are normally
followed by "=E6=97=A5", which helps greatly in reading them.  This funny
format looks like it's just the standard U.S. format with the words
translated.

Looking at an old screenshot (from August 2004), I see that the Gnome
clock-applet used to use a better and more standard format for
Japanese-localized date/time:

    6=E6=9C=88 2=E6=97=A5 (=E6=9C=A8), =E5=8D=88=E5=BE=8C 6:27

I think it would be better if the clock-applet switched back to the
older format.

Thanks,

-Miles


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=3Dja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=3Dja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=3DUTF-8)

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ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.10.1-1        Utility library for loading =
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ii  libgnome-menu0           2.10.1-1        an implementation of the fre=
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