Re: [Evolution] How to configure time/date display format?

["R. Steven Rainwater" <srainwater ncc com>]

After some scrounging around in Ximian's bugzilla database, I found a
bug ID for this. Looks like quite a few other folks would like to see
this fixed. No sign of any work being done on it though. And Ximian
seems to have the vote-for-bug functionality turned off in their
bugzilla, so we can't help them decide which bugs are most important...
:-/

  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5137

-Steve

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:56, Eric Lambart wrote:
> I agree it would be really nice to have a configurable date/time display
> format, but no, it is not possible to do this now.  My main complaint
> isn't that these various formats are confusing, but that they take up
> too much column space that could be used for displaying a longer
> subject.
>
> Glad to hear someone else agrees, but for now we're out of luck. 
> Hopefully you can get used to the format... or else submit a patch to
> make it user-configurable!
>
> Super-customizable is something Evolution is not, but it sure works well
> in general.
>
> Eric
>
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:29, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > I've just migrated my mail to Evolution and mostly like it but I'm still
> > having trouble getting a few things to work right. 
> >
> > One problem is the Date format for emails. The timestamp is displayed in
> > a half dozen different formats depending on how old the message is. Some
> > include the year, some dont. Some say what day it is and some don't.
> > Some don't even include the time. I'm sure somebody thought it was a
> > cute idea but I find it highly, unbelievably, mind-bogglingly annoying.
> > Is there anyway to configure Evolution to use just a single, consistent
> > date format for all emails? I've looked through the settings dialog but
> > can't find any way to fix it.
> >
> > Example entries from my Date column now:
> >
> > Today 5:18 PM
> > Yesterday 12:42 AM
> > 1.43 PM  (if it's not today or yesterday, what day is it?)
> > Mon 9:48 AM
> > Sep 03 10:46 PM
> > Dec 23 2002
> >
> > What I'd like (this or any consistent format will do):
> >
> > 10 Sep 2003 17:18 
> > 09 Sep 2003 12:42
> > 23 Dec 2002 18:42
> > ...
> >
> > -Steve