| Kilos | morning everybody | 05:30 |
|---|---|---|
| Cryterion_ | Hi Kilo's, yes you're right! | 09:31 |
| === Resu_Etavirp is now known as Private_User | ||
| Kilos | haha | 11:06 |
| Kilos | you answer so long after i forget whay i said | 11:06 |
| Kilos | or asked | 11:06 |
| Kilos | hi JoTraGo | 15:20 |
| JoTraGo | Howzit! | 15:20 |
| Kilos | first time you here? | 15:21 |
| Kilos | all good here ty and there | 15:21 |
| JoTraGo | Not exactly but haven't been around for a while, Do you use GNUCash by any chance | 15:21 |
| Kilos | nope but maybe someone here does | 15:22 |
| Kilos | only been very quiet | 15:22 |
| Kilos | most likely theyll return tonight | 15:22 |
| Kilos | what is GNUCash | 15:22 |
| JoTraGo | OK, on a more general note, do you have an opinion on the strict use of the comma as a decimal point when the English ZA coutry / location is selected in ubuntu | 15:23 |
| JoTraGo | GNUCash is a fairly comprehensive open source double entry bookkeeping system | 15:23 |
| Kilos | using the comma where | 15:24 |
| Kilos | where do you see commas | 15:24 |
| Kilos | i know its used to separate channels in irc clients | 15:24 |
| Kilos | when superfly gets here he can explain things | 15:27 |
| Kilos | hi Cryterion_ | 15:27 |
| Kilos | can you answer this | 15:27 |
| superfly | Kilos: he's talking about locale settings | 15:27 |
| superfly | 1 000 vs 1,000 | 15:27 |
| Kilos | JoTraGo> OK, on a more general note, do you have an opinion on the strict use of the comma as a decimal point when the English ZA coutry / location is selected in ubuntu | 15:27 |
| Kilos | oh | 15:27 |
| superfly | and 1.0 vs 1,0 | 15:28 |
| superfly | and while the South African standard is still 1 000,0, because the USA uses 1,000.0 most of SA does too. Even the online banking | 15:28 |
| Kilos | ty superfly i dont even notice things like that | 15:29 |
| JoTraGo | I am actually referring to the DECIMAL Point not the Thousands separator. I find that with SA regional setting I have to use Comma as the decimal point in Libre office Calc, and GNU Cash. Whereas, for instance in online banking in SA the apps use the DOT as the decimal point. THis causes me some confusion and has already led to a R30,000 error when I accidentally put a comma instead of a Dot on a bank transfer. | 15:33 |
| Kilos | ouch | 15:33 |
| JoTraGo | I would like to find out if it is possible to edit the ZA Regional setting and revert it to Comma for Thousands Separator and DOT for decimal point. Whilst not strictly correct it is more consistent with everyday practice | 15:35 |
| superfly | JoTraGo: actually, I was referring to both since both are part of the standard. | 15:37 |
| superfly | JoTraGo: don't bother editing, just change to the US | 15:37 |
| JoTraGo | Yes I could do that, but then I have to edit all the other things in US for ZA, Time Zone, Currency location etc. I like using the ZA locale as it feeds through to many areas of ubuntu. I though maybe some fellow South Africans may have come a cross the same issue, and have a neat solution. | 15:46 |
| Kilos | maybe gremble has worked something out | 15:56 |
| MaNI | huh, since when is comma the South African standard for decimal points, even at school and university everything used . | 16:04 |
| MaNI | I'm pretty sure I've not once in my life run into anywhere in the country where anyone actually used a comma for this purpose | 16:04 |
| MaNI | oh wow, it does look like we supposedly adopted it in "1974" - guess the government forgot to actually tell the population | 16:13 |
| Kilos | lol | 16:17 |
| Kilos | sjoe MaNI were you born then already | 16:43 |
| MaNI | nah I wasn't around then - I'm an 80s baby | 16:53 |
| MaNI | but going on real world adoption it sure looks like one of those things where they changed it but the population ignored them :p | 16:54 |
| Kilos | hahaha | 16:55 |
| Kilos | Maaz seen inetpro | 17:36 |
| Maaz | Kilos: inetpro was last seen 1 day, 22 hours, 8 minutes and 18 seconds ago in #ubuntu-za on freenode [2016-02-05 11:28:15 PST], and has been online on freenode since 2016-02-04 04:55:50 PST | 17:36 |
| Kilos | hmm... | 17:37 |
| Kilos | night all. sleep tight | 19:10 |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!