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

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

It seems most people answering are ready to go for ISO's yyyy-MM-dd.

Any objection, Feliz?

J-F

Feliz Gouveia a écrit :
> I'm not sure that suits your needs, I usually do something like:
> 
> DateTime dt = new DateTime();
> DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd_HHmmss");
> return name+dt.toString(fmt);
> 
> of course the pattern part can be localized if needed, and there are
> no spaces (just '-'). As for the name part, I replace spaces by
> underscores, and chop the filename so that adding the date part does
> not exceed 31 chars (because of windows limitations, I guess).
> 
> Feliz
> 
> On 22 July 2010 15:15, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
>> Sorry -- I misunderstood. Setting the ISO default once is best.
>>
>> - Beth
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>
>>> I think most non-English locale users are not comfortable with
>>> English format.
>>>
>>> This is why I was suggesting using a ISO default and being able to
>>> set the format through configuration once instead of 5 times through
>>> localization right now.
>>>
>>> How is it less simple than your suggestion?
>>>
>>> J-F
>>>
>>> Beth Kirschner a écrit :
>>>> Possibly true, but just aiming to simplify localization. I'm
>>>> doubtful most translators will know how to 'localize' the date
>>>> format string, so as long as folks are comfortable with most
>>>> locales defaulting to a US format, than this shouldn't be a problem.
>>>> - Beth
>>>> On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>
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Jean-François Lévêque
Responsable technique Sakai
Université Pierre et Marie Curie

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Jean-Francois Leveque
Sakai CTO
University Pierre and Marie Curie
France