Re: Problem with NSShortDateFormatString

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Saturday, January 28, 2012 13:44 CET, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, OK. But it must have been working some time ago I guess.

>
> 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?

I looked at NSDateFormatter, and after some fiddling around with it, it works 
as expected.
Sent a patch for review to Riccardo.
Thanks for the pointer.

Sebastian


>
> 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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