[Evolution] Date Format

[Andy McMullin <Andy rickham net>]

Hi there,

Guenther and I have been conversing on the "Users" list about the date
format used by Evolution -- and he suggested I ask here to see if anyone
knows the answer to my little problem.

I have a Linux system that runs Evolution. It is Red Hat v9 with the
supplied Evolution (1.2.2-5).

When I go to enter a birthday into contacts, or an event of appointment
in the calendar, that version of Evolution expects my entry in UK format
(dd/mm/yyyy). I guess it does this because it knows my locale; which is
set with "LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8" because I said it was a UK machine.

However, on my Solaris (Sparc) system it doesn't seem to matter what I
do, date entries are always in the wrong format (always US mm/dd/yyyy)
whatever locale I set.

I had thought that Evolution was the same no matter which OS was being
used. Then I wondered if this is a Solaris only matter -- until Guenther
revealed that his Mandrake box was always mm/dd/yyyy whatever he did!

Does anyone know why Evolution does this and how I can get the dates of
my Solaris machine to the correct format?

TIA

-- 
Regards
Andy, G8TQH
http://www.rickham.net/