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

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:17 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> 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.

Apparently, date defaults to a 24 hour format always, regardless of the
LC_TIME and TZ (timezone) environment variable.

Explicitly specifying TZ does change the displayed time (according to
the timezones offset) but does not affect the default date and time
format (still 24 hour format).

Localized output (based on LC_TIME, not TZ) by date is returned, if the
format string is set explicitly (like %c).


> 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.

LC_TIME controls the time format, not TZ. See 'man locale'.


If you don't like translated strings and prefer to use an English
Desktop (like me), then don't insist on using en_US. Use LC_TIME=en_GB
instead, if you want English with 24 hour format.

Unless you answer to my question why you don't want to change LC_TIME, I
only can repeat the solution over and over again. Arguing only doesn't
get you any better results...

...guenther


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