Use locale settings for "paste date and date"

[stefonarch]

It's always en_US.UTF

[tsujan]

It's intentionally left to the user (because the locale format is too limited). Please see Preferences → Text → Date and time format.

[stefonarch]

Please see Preferences → Text → Date and time format.

I use this, but it's not localized. Fiddled with " date +%e.%B-%Y " but nothing.

[tsujan]

Fiddled with " date +%e.%B-%Y " but nothing.

For example, "%Y" has no meaning, and "date" is just d+a+t+e, which you most probably don't want.

See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qdate.html#fromString-1 and https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtime.html#toString for date and time formats.

[tsujan]

But wait a minute! If you empty that text entry, the app uses the date time format used for your current locale, with the long format. Doesn't it?

[tsujan]

OK, the date and time string is always in English and not localized, although its format is localized when that text entry is left empty.

The reason is that Qt has changed. I think we had something similar in LXQt, which I fixed.

[stefonarch]

although its format is localized when that text entry is left empty.

It's not here, I tried that. Wednesday 9 October 2024 19:41:58 CEST is printed.

[tsujan]

With the fix, it's be mercoledì 9 ottobre 2024 21:26:39 GMT+3:30 for Italian. If it isn't correct, blame Qt ;)

EDIT: Of course, the above string is made here, not at your location.

[tsujan]

Done in 243cbac.

Thanks for telling me about it. I'll do the same thing for FeatherPad.

[tsujan]

Changed it to the short format (from the long format, which is Qt's default) in e793e9d.

It's more practical to have 09/10/24 21:26 instead of mercoledì 9 ottobre 2024 21:26:39 GMT+3:30 by default.

[stefonarch]

I used always a custom format, it works fine now.
9 ottobre 2024

[tsujan]

The problem was that the names were always in English. There was a comment in Qt5 doc that it would happen in Qt6.

I'm sure that I made a PR about that in LXQt; maybe for lxqt-panel's clock.

EDIT: Yes, it was this: lxqt/lxqt-panel#2039

[stefonarch]

O yes, one of our bugs in Qt6.