[Gretl-users] Re: Gretl GUI and Date of script files
Am 02.06.2019 um 18:51 schrieb cruz.echevarria(a)ehu.eus:
If you allow me, I would cautiously suggest revising this feature of
the Gretl GUI for future releases: date and time univocally
characterize a computer file; time, by iself alone, can't.
Well, the design (not specific to gretl) that Allin mentioned omits the
date display just for times within the last 24 hours. So in this context
of course it's unique.
experience, and to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time
that when trying to open a file within a software package, the
sofware does not show both the date and the time of the file list.
There's something similar in many places. For example Dropbox and other
services display things like "2 minutes ago" for the modification time,
omitting the date as well. The Windows OS itself was also planning
something similar it seems (but postponed it), search for "friendly dates".
But the main point is that this is _not_ a design choice that gretl (or
Allin) made directly. The so-called "GTK" framework is used by many GUI
programs, at least among those that are cross-platform (Linux & Windows
& also MacOS). So this might be beyond gretl's control.
However, it is true that native Windows applications have a different
date display format. So if something inside GTK can be configured along
these lines at compile time (again, not sure if this is possible) maybe
it would be an idea to change that setting. (I tried to find something
in the online GTK documentation, but without success.)
cheers
sven