GTG date format should follow locale

I don't think it's possible to follow the user's locale setting, because there is no unambiguous 1:1 mapping between locales and date formats. For example, read the first paragraph under the subheading "Date" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Canada

Another reference is the gedit "Date" plugin, code for which is here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/plugins/time/gedit-time-plugin.c
...they seem to provide a number of options in a drop-down, and default to ISO 8601.

We could just follow the same format as the command date +"%c", which writes the date in "current locale".

Paul > this should not be a "per application" setting. There's a setting (LC_DATE ?) that give the current date locale. In GNOME, each application should follow system settings and not allow the user to have to set his setting for each application.

 "locale" is not only about the country or the language. It also defines stuffs like currency and date format.

It's wrong in my case :( — see bug #517397. But yes, you are right:

import locale, time
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, '')
print time.strftime('%x')

if you just want the format string, you can use print locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT)

Now dates are in locale's format in the TaskBrowser

Is this bug currently fixed in Trunk? If yes, who fixed that?

I can confirm this is fixed (touch that code during the merge of new date class, rev 1089)