Re: [Evolution] Comments and questions on the Evolution mailer

[Svante Signell <svante signell telia com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 17:19 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > > I might do that as a workaround. Which locale has an LC_TIME giving the
> > > > date in English and uses 24 hour format?
> > >
> > > LC_TIME=en_GB

> Evolution is part of the official Gnome Desktop. One of it's aims are a
> consistent UI. Evolution should display the date exactly like any other
> Gnome application.
>
> If you want 24 hour time format, set the locales accordingly for the
> whole Desktop. And Evolution magically will behave just like you expect
> it.

What is controlling the date format from GNU coreutils? I suspect that
the timezone setting comes into play here, since setting the LC_TIME to
en_GB, en_US and sv_SE all give a 24 hour time format. This would also
be a desirable behaviour of Evolution: If you don't set any LC variables
and LC_CTYPE is equal to C, the timezone you are in cuold control the
time format. In my case I'm in using CET and this should result in a 24
hour time format. Maybe difficulties can arise in North and South
America depending on if you are in the same time zone and use different
time formats. Otherwise this could be a feasible idea.

Best regards,
Svante