Bug#732200: ITP: Open Time Zone Converter -- A simple app to convert the time and date between two different zones.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 00:06 +0900, David Maiorino wrote:
> Questions:
> 1. "please use system-supplied widgets on the right hand panel
> too". For this request, my idea was to limit the amount of knobs
> that could be touched. So the date and time the user knows would be
> but on the left, and the result they wanted would be on the right.
> Would it make sense to have this adjustable on both sides.
I was wrong to suggest using widgets on the right hand side,
limiting the number of knobs is better. I was thinking of ways to
show the date in the right hand panel in a system-supplied
localised format.
Please use the DateFormat class to create the string that goes in
newTimeLabel, so that it is localised.
> 2. Copyrights. Would anybody know if we need to add copyrights
> for the classes used in this program? The program runs fine with
> OpenJDK as well, so maybe a solution would be to package it to run
> with OpenJDK?
My concern was with the lists of timezones in
TimeZoneMenu.simplifiedTimezoneList, africaTimezoneList etc, and I
thought that they would be removed as part of the localisation
process anyway.
But now I see that those lists are selected by hand from a much
longer list that's available from the TimeZone system class, with
no way to create the short list programatically. Also those
strings are IDs which don't change between locales.
I think that's OK, it's similar to names of methods and classes.
(But I'm not an authority on this).
Cheers,
Steve
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