Date format in GNOME 40 panel clock

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 10 May 2021 14:54:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>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

PS: Just an example: https://sourceforge.net/p/extcalc-linux/bugs/8/