Re: [Evolution] Date Format

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > 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?
>
> I don't know. What I don't understand is why what appears to be an older
> version (admittedly for a slightly different OS) works yet the current
> doesn't.

Well, that is easy: Evolution 1.4 is mainly a port of the 1.2 version to
Gnome 2. If this particular code was ported and therefore uses new
functions, errors may happen... ;-)

That's what I meant by "regression".


> Is it a version problem or an OS one I wonder? Anyone with 1.4.4 or
> 1.4.5 on Red Hat willing to switch to the GB locale and see if the dates
> then work properly. If they do then does that make it a OS/locale
> problem; if not a version one?

The Red Hat version may be essential, too. What is your RH version?

...guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}