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GNOME Clock has duplicate 0x20's on single-figure dates

Bug #74670 reported by Alexander Jones
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GNOME Panel
New
Low
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I suspect this is because libc formats dates for monospace text display.

Example, today is 6 December 2006.

My clock is quite clearly reading "Wed·Dec··6,·17:45", and it looks a bit stupid. (Aside the fact that it's an American date format and my locale was supposed to be English/GB, but that's another bug.)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Very minor detail, I'm not sure that's a bug, why one space would be nicer?

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

Because it would be consistent with itself. In a monospace terminal, the width of a space is equal to the width of a digit, so dates line up in, e.g. "ls". This isn't the case with variable-width fonts and it just looks silly to have inconsistent spacing between, e.g. "Fri··9·Feb,·17:42" and "Sat·10·Feb,·17:42".

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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

I agree with Alex here - the extra space seems a little pointless. I can understand why its there if you use a monospace font for the clock - to stop the clock expanding / contracting when the date changes. Not many people do however. It stands out now its been pointed out, heh.

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

I think it's just that the stock date format string is designed for monospace terminals, and we're just borrowing that stuff for the clock.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

may someone having this issue forward it upstream? i'm leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

any news about this?

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote : Re: [Bug 74670] Re: GNOME Clock has duplicate 0x20's on single-figure dates

Still an issue. In general, date and time strings are generated all
over GNOME with simple gettext tokens. I don't see this going away
until we add stuff to GLib.

The band-aid solution for Clock Applet is to collapse multiple spaces
into 1 space, as there is no strftime token that prints the
day-of-month without padding.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

could someone send it upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org?

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Maybe the additional space is there, because of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/159323 and it there instead of the missing leading zero?

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Forget my last comment...

My clock is reading "Sa, 06. Dez, 12:16" , so instead of a whitespace numbers lower than 10 have a leading zero.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I forwarded it upstream

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Low
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