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Idea for the kicker watch
by Patrick Trettenbrein on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:06

A great feature would be a point in kontextmenu of the kicker watch that is called "Show this day in history" (or something simmilar). So that konqueror is started and shows the wikipedia entry for the current date in history.

Example: It's the 24.06.2005 (I'm sorry for writing the date this way, but I'm Austrian and don't really know the American or English way :)) Klick on the menu entry and konqueror shows up with the URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24._Juni

Patrick

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @16:17

> (I'm sorry for writing the date this way, but I'm Austrian
> and don't really know the American or English way :))

Yeah, I'm Austrian too, and already faced this a little bit. I think the most important non-German date formats are the international one (YYYY-MM-DD, like in SQL for example) and some English or American one (don't ask me which, but it's MM/DD/YY). I'd use the international one if I need to write dates.

And for your idea - not bad, I like it :)

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by ltmon on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @16:37

I believe American is MM/DD/YYYY and English (also Australian) is DD/MM/YYYY.

L.

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by richard on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @04:15

I thought the German was DD/MM/YYYY too, as a German friend told me how he was unable to buy beer in the USA as they expected his passport to have his date in the MM/DD/YYYY format.

He ended up taking a driving test to get some American ID.

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by mikeyd on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @06:58

The whole of Europe is DD/MM/YYYY. I think everywhere except the US is.

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[OT] Dates (was: Re: Idea for the kicker watch)
by Nicolas Goutte on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @07:26

To be picky: not exactly!

For example, Germany uses dots as separator: DD.MM.YYYY

And the European Norm is in the international one: YYYY-MM-DD
(It is even the national norm now in many (old) E.U. countries, even if not used commonly.)

Have a nice day!

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by Jonas on Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @13:32

All of northern Europe uses (YY)YY-MM-DD.

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Re: Idea for the kicker watch
by debian user on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @17:10

Would be nice for the Kontact summary page also.

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