Re: [Evolution] Date Format

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:42, Andy McMullin wrote:
> 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).

Oh, I didn't know this was 1.2.x...


> 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.

As you wrote this mail with a 1.4.4 version, I assume this is Solaris.


> 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!

I tested 1.4.5 only.

Maybe this is simply a regression bug?


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

...guenther


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