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-rw-r--r--e-util/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--e-util/e-time-utils.c10
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/e-util/ChangeLog b/e-util/ChangeLog
index 26109f20aa..b4ddbccce0 100644
--- a/e-util/ChangeLog
+++ b/e-util/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-08-20 Damon Chaplin <damon@ximian.com>
+
+ * e-time-utils.c (e_time_parse_date): added comments to help
+ translators a bit.
+
2001-08-09 Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@ximian.com>
* e-categories-config.c (e_categories_config_get_icon_for): return
diff --git a/e-util/e-time-utils.c b/e-util/e-time-utils.c
index 716490abf2..bb051986da 100644
--- a/e-util/e-time-utils.c
+++ b/e-util/e-time-utils.c
@@ -236,9 +236,19 @@ e_time_parse_date (const char *value, struct tm *result)
g_return_val_if_fail (value != NULL, E_TIME_PARSE_INVALID);
g_return_val_if_fail (result != NULL, E_TIME_PARSE_INVALID);
+ /* This is the preferred date format for the locale. */
format[0] = _("%m/%d/%Y");
+
+ /* This is the second-choice date format for the locale, which we use
+ if previous attempts to parse the date string failed. */
format[1] = _("%d/%m/%Y");
+
+ /* This is the third-choice date format for the locale, which we use
+ if previous attempts to parse the date string failed. */
format[2] = _("%Y/%m/%d");
+
+ /* This is the final-choice date format for the locale, which we use
+ if previous attempts to parse the date string failed. */
format[3] = _("%x"); /* catch-all give-up strptime()-sucks format */
return parse_with_strptime (value, result, format, sizeof (format) / sizeof (format[0]));