Re: Problem with NSShortDateFormatString

[Ivan Vučica]

Upon first look and quick examination, this looks like a bug in -base. I just tested getting value for key NSShortDateFormatString on OS X and it works.

However, OS X also deprecates the key NSShortDateFormatString. They are possibly unhappy that this works by SystemPreferences actually storing the format in user's global defaults. (I don't think they went and hacked this by handling the key NSShortDateFormatString in a special way.)

Maybe this should be considered bug in AddressManager. Shouldn't NSDateFormatter be used to format dates?

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 13:36, Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

Hi,

while looking into AddressManager, I found, I can enter a birth date, but its not shown there.

Its using this in Frameworks/AddressView/ADPersonPropertyView+Private.m to set the value that should be shown:

val = [val descriptionWithCalendarFormat:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:NSShortDateFormatString]];

Looking into -base, I think it should take the format string from Resources/Languages/<Language>

I don't have a locale set, but also tried to set LC_CTYPE='de_DE.UTF-8' or LANG, or LC_ALL, but no change.

only when I define the default

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSShortDateFormatString '%d.%m.%Y'

Then AddressManager shows me the birth date.

without the default set, [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:NSShortDateFormatString] returns NULL.

Is this a problem in AddressManager, or -base?

regards,
Sebastian

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