"Updated on/at" is grammatically incorrect

Bug #1616402 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
New
Undecided
Matthew Paul Thomas
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
High
Jonas G. Drange

Bug Description

The new system settings (see screenshot) shows the text "Updated at 24 August". It should probably be:-

"Updated on 24th August"

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

Thank you for your report. It does indeed look a bit odd as it is now.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

Reading [1] seems to indicate that support for ordinal numbers in a locale aware manner is currently not supported in Qt. It may be possible using a c++ icu library, but it's unclear how to do this and at the same time respect locales without ordinal numbers.

Suggestions welcome.

[1] http://wiki.qt.io/Locale_Support_in_Qt_5#Number_Localization

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :
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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

FYI: In the Weather app we recently added a piece of text to let the user know when the weather data was updated.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ahayzen/ubuntu-weather-app/fix-1583169-add-updated-at-text/revision/250

We used "Updated N minutes ago" / "Updated N hours ago" / "Updated N days ago" .

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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

Maybe we could do relative date, but it's not in the spec [1], so I've added ux to the report.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Phone

Paty Davila (dizzypaty)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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