(2014-03-01, 23:35)BigNoid Wrote: Why o why is the date format changed without notice to skin developers, or did I miss that somewhere?
That change obviously didn't get talked about enough beforehand, so I apologize for that. I'm trying to make the info more friendly for the user, but we do need to make sure that it works well with all the skins. Toward that end I'm going to make it default to the old date style with a new option to let the user choose an improved date format (since all the skins I've used need help in this area).
Quote:EDIT: Furthermore, the date thats being displayed in NextDate isnt localized anymore. It should say Mon, 17 Mar. At least thats how it worked with the old date format. It just took over the international settings from xbmc.
The new format is indeed being localized, just not in the same way as before (e.g. it does use the gui's language setting, but I had remarked earlier that I still needed to make it handle the day before/after month order properly). I had looked for a setting that would specify a date format that included a month name, but I didn't find one (though I have recently found "datelong", which I am going to use). I also note that the old addon was inconsistent in its date formatting in the Started field since it just copied the value from tvrage (making it often a totally different numerical date order than anything else), so I am managing to improve at least some things (I hope).
I have been working to make things even more localized than it was before, as seen in the localizing of the day-of-the week names that had previously always been in English. Hopefully this change is not going to also cause a problem. If it does, I can put that behind an option as well.
So, I'm sorry if I haven't been getting this done in quite the right way, and I hope you'll help me get it right when I mess up.
..wayne..
