Date format in GNOME 40 panel clock

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 10 May 2021 14:20:22 +0200, Frank Vanoni wrote:
>That's exactly the point. I love Linux because everything is
>customizable in any detail. Just the date format is a nightmare in
>GNOME.

Hi,

I can't comment on the date format in GNOME.

However, I'm using different distros, with a German keyboard, but the
English language, either us or en, instead of German, for more or less
anything, apart of ° Celsius and inches vs cm, as well as webpage
pitfalls such as $ vs €, that aren't an issue at all, it works.

There's still a serious issue, almost all (with a few exceptions)
calculators suffer from the "." vs ",".

The Wiki claims that both "a comma and a period (or full-stop) are
generally accepted decimal separators for international use." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Linux doesn't way to often not "carefully internationalized" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
this for calculators.

Most calculators can't be used by using the English language in
general, but using a German keyboard, with a German numeric keypad that
comes with a "," instead of a ".".

Some calculators are able to recognize this and at least work ok,
regarding this issue, but most don't and the few that still are able to
understand the "," instead of a "." pitfall not that less suffer from
catastrophic arithmetical errors.

Linux calculators are a PITA. At least, if they can't understand that a
"," is used instead of a ".", they mention this. Unfortunately several
calculators such as (at least) "Extcalc" are unable to provide correct
arithmetical results, if e.g. the result should be "0".

Better get a 99 Cent calculator or a 1,- € plus a few Cents
scientific calculator to get correct results, but never ever relay on a
Linux calculator, almost all of them are terrible broken.

And yes, I filed bug reports, without any feedback ever.

Regards,
Ralf