[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 16527] New: Thunar's default format for file date should be yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss (similar to ISO-8601)

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            Bug ID: 16527
           Summary: Thunar's default format for file date should be
                    yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss (similar to ISO-8601)
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Thunar
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: Core
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: Adalbert.Hanssen at gmx.de
  Target Milestone: 1.8.13

The default formatting for timestamps should be yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss (similar to
ISO-8601).

Unfortunately ISO-8601 uses colons as separators between hours, minutes and
seconds. File names with colons cause problems in other operating system
environments and should therefore be avoided and users should not see such
examples when dealing with file dates as this would mislead them to using such
formats in file names.

In order to popularize usage of date formatting which makes it more logically
sortable (contrary to dd.mm.yyyy or m/d/yyyy), the timestamps should appear in
yyyy-mm-dd ordering.

Thunar already has a configurable option yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (the last one of
the offered formatting options). Unfortunately this one is not the default one
but rather the today/yesterday/day of the week option, which is the least
meaningful one on a computer. 

Even letting the currently last one from the configuration menu become the
standard default would be a great improvement!

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