[Building Sakai] Change proposal for 2.8: export_filename_date_format (i18n to configuration)

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

I think your suggestion is not as simple as needed and may be risky. Are 
we sure we only need to remove spaces in every locale to have a suitable 
string for part of a file name? I wouldn't bet on it.

J-F

Beth Kirschner a écrit :
> I would suggest formatting the date automatically, leveraging the Java 
> DateFormat.getDateFormat() which takes Locale as an argument. The 
> resulting date string can then be transformed into a suitable filename 
> by removing spaces. Automating this would be one less thing to worry 
> about when localizing Sakai.
> 
> - Beth
> 
> On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I think export_filename_date_format (used in Gradebook, Roster, Tests &
>> Quizzes (Samigo), User Membership and SiteStats) is not a i18n property
>> but a configuration property.
>>
>> Because it's used in several tools, I would like it to become a general
>> configuration property.
>>
>> I propose to use the name general.export_filename_date_format in
>> configuration and to set its default to the ISO date format of 
>> yyyy-MM-dd.
>>
>> For further details and related problems, you can check:
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17240
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/STAT-191
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15872
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15682
>>
>> What do the code owners and others devs think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jean-Francois