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Id: 72434
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Chart-Strip
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: HMBRAND [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 1.08
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  Tue Nov 15 06:57:41 2011 HMBRAND [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Bad date format in x-axis labels
The format for the date/time labels for the X-axis are hard-codes US/ American style. A nice module, easy to use, but US-style date formats are not acceptable in Europe, and there is no way to overwrite the format
  Tue Nov 15 10:53:37 2011 jaw+pause [...] tcp4me.com - Correspondence added
actually, this module does not use the standard (and ambiguous) American date format "10/11". instead it uses the unabiguous "10/Nov" format. It uses the standard strftime() function to generate these labels, which is locale aware. your locale can be configured via the POSIX::setlocale() function or via various LC_* environment variables. See your manual for details.
  Tue Nov 15 10:53:37 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Nov 15 10:53:38 2011 jaw+pause [...] tcp4me.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'
  Tue Nov 15 10:59:42 2011 h.m.brand [...] xs4all.nl - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #72434] Bad date format in x-axis labels
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:59:25 +0100
To: bug-Chart-Strip [...] rt.cpan.org
From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand [...] xs4all.nl>
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:53:37 -0500, "Jeff Weisberg via RT" <bug-Chart-Strip@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72434 > > > actually, this module does not use the standard (and ambiguous) American > date format "10/11". instead it uses the unabiguous "10/Nov" format. It > uses the standard strftime() function to generate these labels, which > is locale aware. your locale can be configured via the POSIX::setlocale() > function or via various LC_* environment variables. See your manual > for details.
Then is still uses the *fixed* '/' as separator, which is extremely unusual in e.g. the Netherlands Ok, my statement was too harsh. sorry, but I start flipping when software imposes wrong formats on me like Letter paper format instead of A4 even when my locale is set correctly (wink to LibreOffice) or date/time formats (looking at LANG or LC_ALL instead of LC_TIME). -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
  Tue Nov 15 10:59:43 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'rejected' to 'open'