Data Export exports date and time in bad format
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- C#
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Description
jirikadlec2[CodePlex]
When the user's Windows regional and language settings are non-English (for example Czech), the values of the LocalDateTime and DateTimeUTC columns in the exported CSV file are in a non-standard format. This makes it difficult to work with the exported
csv file in popular tools like LibreOffice or R.
As a fix I would recommend adding an drop-down with quotDate and Time formatquot option and add two date/time format options: default (same as now for example month/day/year in the english language settings) and International date time format (yyyy-mm-dd
hh:mm:ss).
For description of international date and time format see:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
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Research direction
Start by locating the Data Export implementation that writes the LocalDateTime and DateTimeUTC columns, then reproduce the output with non-English Windows regional settings. Review the requested default and international formats, and verify that exported CSV files use the selected format consistently in LibreOffice or R.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- data, desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100