Re: [Evolution] Date Format in Mail View

[Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:26 +0100, Veith, Patrick wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.12.2006, 11:42 +0530 schrieb Sankar P: 
> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:49 +0100, Veith, Patrick wrote:
> > > snip --- 
> > > 1. HH:MM
> > > 2. today HH:MM
> > > 3. Yesterday HH:MM
> > > 4. <Day of the week> HH:MM
> > > 5. DD. <Month>, 16:35
> > > 6. <Month> DD YYYY
> > >
> > > This is quite a large list of possible formats, which does not suite my
> > > requirements very well. So i searched the ubuntu user groups and tried
> > > to find a solution in the internet for a more strict formatting (e.g.
> > > only HH:MM-DD.MM.YYYY). Is there a way to change the format?
> > >
> > > snip ---
> >
> > You can create a new view-column, say absolute-date, and display the
> > absolute date (without qualifying the date) there.
> >
> > The place where the qualification is done is in
> > evolution/mail/meesage-list.c:1458 (filter_date)
> >
> >
> > > cu
> > >
> > > Patrick
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>
> Cool, thanks this sound like the right idea. I will checkout and try to
> patch the current cvs version. Right now i just updated myself on the
> developer information to be able to keep in line with coding-style etc. 
>
> I will probably go for a YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format as suggested by David
> Oxland (I will also look up display in Thunderbird and look up the
> mentioned ISO-Standard).
>
> @David Oxland: If you can name the standard, this would be a great help.
>
> (This will take some time so, so please be patient with me.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick

Hi Patrick,

The ISO standard is ISO 8601:2004.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

http://www.probabilityof.com/ISO8601.shtml