Deskbar clock doesn't honor locale formatting

[jammi]

The colon is not the right time separator for many locales, including Finland. The Deskbar clock seems to be hardcoded to use a colon instead of the locale separator.

[jscipione]

I'll take ownership of this since I was the last to touch the Deskbar clock, although I really can't fix this unless the option get's exposed by the Locale Kit first, and I've had limited success exposing ICU settings via the Locale Kit in the past.

[kallisti5]

Just to make sure... you are restarting the deskbar after making locale changes... right? Any applications already running will use the previous locale until restarted.

[jammi]

Replying to kallisti5:

Just to make sure... you are restarting the deskbar after making locale changes... right? Any applications already running will use the previous locale until restarted.

Same thing, doesn't make a difference. Quite a lot of reboots later now; nothing's changed.

[jscipione]

Replying to jammi:

Replying to kallisti5:

Just to make sure... you are restarting the deskbar after making locale changes...

Quite a lot of reboots later now; nothing's changed.

Don't bother rebooting : is hard-coded, I need to figure out how to expose the setting in the Locale Kit.

[jscipione]

Screenshot showing time with localized time seperator in Finnish Locale

[jscipione]

ICU (and thus the Locale Kit) does not support localized time separators in time format strings, therefore, we are going to have to add support for them ourselves. I made a quick proof-of-concept hack to update the time separator for the Finnish locale only. The real fix is a bit more work. The localized date separator ('/') should probably get the same treatment.

[axeld]

You don't need to know the separator; if you'd now about it, you still don't know how the order and formatting of the time is done, same for the date. All you have to do is to let the locale kit format the time.

[jscipione]

Should be fixed in hrev44850