[PyQt] SystemLocaleShortDate omits the century on Linux

[Maurizio Berti]

Taken from QDate.toString (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdate.html#toString-1):

If the format is Qt::SystemLocaleShortDate or Qt::SystemLocaleLongDate, the
> string format depends on the locale settings of the system.


It completely depends on how the system "tells" what is the date format.
Apparently, Windows defaults to 4 digits for your localization, while it's
set to 2 for Linux.
You can change them in both systems: in Windows it's on the regional
settings, while on Linux it depends on your distro/window manager/etc.

Maurizio

Il giorno mer 11 mar 2020 alle ore 19:19 Sibylle Koczian <
nulla.epistola at web.de> ha scritto:

> Hello,
>
> on Windows SystemLocaleShortDate gives 'dd.MM.yyyy', quite correct for
> locale de-DE.
>
> On Linux (at least on ArchLinux, I didn't try other distributions) it
> gives 'dd.MM.yy' with the same locale.
>
> The documentation calls SystemLocaleShortDate "The short format used by
> the operating system". But the locale's date representation as given by
> "date +%x" in the Linux terminal shows the date as it should be,
> including the century.
>
> Why the difference?
>
> It is especially annoying with dates from this year in a QTableView: I
> always try to drag the date column wider which doesn't help.
>
> Looking for explanations,
> Sibylle
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