[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Some Thoughts Regarding IT OS 2007 and the N800

[From: Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga]

Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com wrote:

> As I said, we migh look into it, but AFAIK this would mean we either
> modify the current locale (really nasty) or create a pseudo-locale with
> the user setting (just nasty). Unless someone has better idea or
> understanding of the POSIX locales. Either way, I'd feel we would be the
> only UNIX system doing this (does OSX do it too?). Ideas welcome.

Mac OS X 10.4:

Displaying the date and time

You can have an analog or digital clock appear in the menu bar or in a 
floating window on your desktop. You can also choose how the time 
appears (for example, you can choose to see the day of the week, or use 
a 24-hour clock).

I don't know what they do to the locale, but 24 hour format is just a 
checkbox on the clock tab in the date and time system preferences.

Here's what the terminal thinks is my locale information:

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL="C"

Right now I'm in the US with a 24 hour clock on my Mac Desktop.

-- 
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Programmer-Archaeologist
UPR Bioinformatics Resource Center
http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/