Re: [Evolution] Date Format in Mail View

[Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:49 +0100, Veith, Patrick wrote:
> Dear all (new-to-the-list alert),
> 
> before i go to deep into evolution source i would like to ask, if there
> is a known way to change the default behaviour of the "date
> formatting" (<- sound fishy, or not ;) ) in mail view (i am using
> Evolution 2.8.1 edgy).
> 
> Right no i get the following different formats:
> 
> 1. HH:MM
> 2. today HH:MM
> 3. Yesterday HH:MM
> 4. <Day of the week> HH:MM
> 5. DD. <Month>, 16:35
> 6. <Month> DD YYYY
> 
> This is quite a large list of possible formats, which does not suite my
> requirements very well. So i searched the ubuntu user groups and tried
> to find a solution in the internet for a more strict formatting (e.g.
> only HH:MM-DD.MM.YYYY). Is there a way to change the format?
> 
> If not (which i suspect is the case): I would really like to have the
> feature, and i would start to develop a eplugin or submit a patch
> (having programmed quite a lot, that should be manageable for me). From
> what i found searchin' the web, there were some people before me having
> asked how to change the format, so there might already be an opinion
> about this on this list. A suggestion where to look (is this possible as
> a eplugin?) would be very welcome indeed.
> 
> cu
> 
> Patrick

Hello Patrick,

I am also new to this list and Evolution but I find this way of
displaying message dates to be a real pain.  I don't like to see
messages as yesterday or today or anything but the date.  I don't want
to see Mon or Tue, I want my date as it was in Thunderbird.

If you submit a bug report, I will add my comments.