Gtk2 File Chooser Modification Time Display Sender: Linux 384

Hi, I also think that this is a "short-coming" in the way Gtk handles the dates of files displayed in the ChooseFileDialog. It strikes me as being aimed at being "user-friendly" and not "professional-grade".

I asked about it on a Gtk2 maillist and will see what they say.

For what it's worth, if you are capable of compiling your own Gtk+ c libs (there are various considerations, like version level mis-matches), you could probably patch the file responsible for that date string. It's in the Gtk+ sources, in a file called

gtkfilechooserdefault.c

Just open it, and search for the word "Yesterday", and you will find the section of code which sets this. There is a string default formatted with %x, and I'm not familiar enough with c, to know the various ramifications of changing it.

Like you said, it would be ideal if this was adjustable in the gtkrc style settings. But the Gtk libs are still in active development, so I would guess that in time, they will tighten this up.

I'll post a followup if I come across a solution.

-- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.