[Bug 2077761] Re: Enhancement Request - General Personalization of Date/Time specification

[Eric Marceau]

I believe the option to make such customization should be happening up-
front, during the installation, so that presumably the OS could have the
preferred format "hard-coded" so that there isn't overhead at every
usage to generate the customized date/time reporting.

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Title:
  Enhancement Request - General Personalization of Date/Time
  specification

Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The following was sent as an email to  coreutils at gnu.org  as directed
  by them.

  
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  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
  Release:	22.04
  Codename:	jammy

  Version:        coreutils  8.32-4.1ubuntu1.2

  What I expect to happen:  Please see below.

  Question:  Why does ubuntu-bug transmit 300kbs for close to 4 minutes !!! That is a log of data, and I have to question the justification for so much data.
  =====================================================================

  
  Hello,

  Please refer to my postings,

  =====================================================================
  here (https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/1712#issuecomment-2305818307),
  where I stated:

      The issue here is that the FORMAT for time and date should be set
  set from the UbuntuMATE Preferences window for Time and Date**, for it
  to be globally applied to the system.

      The choices offered should be

          either as a regional/country/ISO default, or
          a personalized version of a regional/country/ISO default.

      This would involve a click-toggle to offer customization of any date/time field.
      This could include user-defined change of TimeZone, to a specified region/country, even if that TimeZone is different than the default, I suggest selectable by drop-down).

      Once that specification is chosen/edited, that format
  specification should be applied universally for all user-oriented
  interactions, with the exception of those that are core system (i.e.
  syslog and the like, which would use the regional/county/ISO default
  underlying the user's personalizations.

      Something like that was previously offered in one of the older
  Ubuntu distros (somewhere between 10 and 16) but I can't remember
  which one.

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  and here (https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/616#issuecomment-2305779056),
  where I stated:

      I have this bash logic which I would like to see merged into Caja
  as an option for global time formatting. Would that be possible? (I
  would like it for the ls command, but I don't think that you handle
  that. :-) )

      Create customized version of ‘ls l’ to report on files during the
  progress of the script.

      Key aspect is that, if the modification is older than 24 hours,
              it reports only the date;
      otherwise
              it reports only the time of the last change using the 24-hour clock.

      myLs()
      {
      	#eval stat --format=\"\|\%A\|\%h\|\%s\|\%y\|\%n\|\" \"${1}\"
      	eval stat --format=\"\|\%A\|\%h\|\%s\|\%Y\|\%n\|\" \"${1}\" |
      	awk -v now=${time_now} '{
      		n=split( $0, vals, "|" ) ;

      		#mult24=( (1.0*now) - vals[5] )/86400 ;
      		#print mult24 ;
      		# 86400 seconds in a 24 hour period

      		if( ( (1.0*now) - vals[5] )/86400 > 1 ){
      			printf("%s %2s %15s  %10s  %s\n", vals[2], vals[3], vals[4], strftime("%F", vals[5]), vals[6] ) ;
      		}else{
      			printf("%s %2s %15s  %9s   %s\n", vals[2], vals[3], vals[4], strftime("%R:%S", vals[5]), vals[6] ) ;
      		} ;

      	}'
      }

  =====================================================================

  Thank you in advance for your consideration and, hopefully your
  acceptance of this feature request.

  Regards,

  Eric Marceau

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: coreutils 8.32-4.1ubuntu1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-116.126-generic 5.15.158
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-116-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  Date: Fri Aug 23 15:25:27 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-29 (1394 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-07-14 (40 days ago)

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