[bug #29208] NSCalendarDate's format does not support the %k conversion specifier

[Yavor Doganov]

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                 Summary: NSCalendarDate's format does not support the %k
conversion specifier
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: yavor
            Submitted on: Fri 12 Mar 2010 03:41:18 PM EET
                Category: Base/Foundation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Change Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

While preparing the upload of SimpleAgenda/0.40 for Debian I discovered
something unpleasant -- the time in the app icon is displayed as
'%k,<minutes>,<seconds>' when run under Bulgarian locale.  This is because our
locale definition is '%k,%M,%S'.  (The %k specifier is a GNU extension
according to the glibc manual, which makes its use perfectly valid in a glibc
locale.)

Unfortunately NSCalendarDate (as documented) does not understand it.  I
checked the Cocoa documentation, and there's no %k there too (not
surprising).

Would you accept a patch implementing support for the %k specifier?  I hope
that Apple not implementing it won't be an obstacle...

AFAICS from the online documentation, `strftime' in FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and
even Mac OS X support it, so it's not something strictly GNU-specific.

The attached test program demonstrates the current ugliness:

$ LC_ALL=C ./obj/test
%H:%M:%S
15:37:17
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./obj/test
%r
03:38:37 PM
$ ./obj/test
%k,%M,%S
%k,38,48



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