Dates in the UI are displayed in US-style format (month/day/year), which is confusing for British and other non-US English speakers who expect day/month/year.
I expected to be able to change this via the User Interface Language settings, but there is no option for British English (en_GB).
What OS?
Sorry... Mac OS 10.8.2, Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.2-beta.
So there is NO en_GB translation, but AFAIK our language setting has nothing todo with time formats. Where do you see the wrong format, everywhere or just in the debug Window for example?
I see them in at least the following places:
I think that the date format does need to be controlled by the language setting, which should actually be more general, i.e. the user's locale. Also relevant to this is the formatting of large numbers, negative numbers etc.
This problem affects me too, as I'd like to use the ISO date format instead of the default one. I tried adding LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8" to my system locale settings but it doesn't work with Bitcoin-Qt.
The language/regional formatting will be chosen by the system locale or could be overwritten by the -lang=<ISO_LANG> argument or over the GUI settings panel. Closing.
@jonasschnelli Does -lang= also overwrite the Dates? For me it does not, so I think that's what the bug was reporting.
Sorry. Your right. -lang keeps the locale.
But IMO the application behavior is correct. It uses the system wide locale settings to chose the date formatting pattern. I can't remember seeing an application that allowed users to override the date format in per-application settings.
Right, but what about GB locale vs US locale? Is qt indeed displaying US locale when the system is running GB? (Haven't yet checked myself)
Couldn't reproduce the issue here. Thanks for closing.