xffm translation: date specification

[Bernhard Walle]

Hello,

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 08:39 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> El mié, 18-06-2003 a las 15:50, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> > On Wed, 18, Jun 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > 
> > Why? (IMHO) we try to keep the other components "hack-free" (we had
> > discussion on wm and panel lately), so lets keep xffm "hack-free"
> > as well (just my opinion).
> 
> The only issue here is that since I have no idea what the hack consists
> of (having just done a cut and paste from the GNU-ls code) I would
> probably just replace on hack with another. If you know how to get rid
> of the hack, please do. All I ask for is:
> -files younger than 6 months show hh:mm instead of year 
> -no strings for month translations be necessary in the po files (they're
> big enough already).
> 
> If you could help me on these issues I would greatly appreciate it.


Where's the problem? Something like


char *getModificationString (const char* path) {
      static char   string[BUFSIZ];
      time_t        now             = time(NULL);
      struct stat   statstruct;
      char*         formatstring;
      
      memset (string, 0, BUFSIZ);

      if (stat (path, &statstruct) != 0) {
          return NULL;
      }

      formatstring = difftime(now, statstruct.st_mtime) > 24*60*60*30*6
          ? OLD_FORMATSTRING
          : NEW_FORMATSTRING;
      
          
      if (strftime(string, BUFSIZ, formatstring, localtime(&statstruct.st_mtime)) == 0) {
          return NULL;
      }

      return string;
}
      
would work, just the two strings must be translated. 



> BTW, OT, I'm going to change the behaviour on the copy operation.
> Previously only moved files received the date of the original file. In
> the future, so will copied files, since the date information is much
> more usefull if it reflects content. This will make working with CVS
> sandboxes a bit faster. 

Do you really want another behaviour in a filemanager than just using
GNU cp?


Gruss,
Bernhard

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