[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 398438] Re: f-spot date field is ambigious (and wrong for much of the world)

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** Changed in: f-spot
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  f-spot date field is ambigious (and wrong for much of the world)

Status in F-Spot:
  Won't Fix
Status in f-spot package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: f-spot

  * Ubuntu 9.04
  * f-spot 0.5.0.3, 
  * European (da_dk) locale

  The f-spot date field is ambigious (ie. it can have more than one
  meaning).

  In the sidebar it is written as nn/nn/nnnn which could mean dd/mm/yyyy
  (as expected in Europe, S.E. Asia, Australasia, S. America, Russian
  Federation etc.) or it could mean mm/dd/yyyy (as users in USA expect
  and f-spot provides). This is a real problem for half the world.

  Even in the 'Adjust Time' tool of f-spot there is ambiguity. The date
  is shown both in mm/dd/yyyy format and yyyy-mm-dd (the added calendar
  helps clarify). All these differences are just bad for the user
  experience, and in this case erode trust in the application and can
  mess up peoples EXIF data.

  (A worldwide standard would solve this, but this is another story you
  can read about here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Date_format )

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