On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:50 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
I start Evolution with "LC_TIME=en_GB evolution" which gives me the format I want, (UK date and time format).
Go one further: put it in .bashrc (and, assuming you source .bashrc
from .bash_profile, it'll run no matter what) so that regardless of how
you execute Evolution (command line, Alt-F2 Run Dialog, a Launcher, a
Menu, etc) your preferences will be set. I use "en_DK" to get the time
format 24 hour.
export LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
export LC_TIME=en_DK
export LC_MESSAGES=C
That is,
* Canadian English is my language; UTF-8 enabled.
* Use "en_DK" (god knows where that came from) but it seems to do dates
and times properly, as opposed to that 12 hour nonsense. Yes, that sure
seems like an ugly hack.
* The last one is because I'm happy with the default untranslated
(usually English) strings in most programs. I ran into problems,
otherwise.
This whole thing has always struck me as a bit unconfigurable;
localization is founded on the idea that there is a "right" way for
different locations/cultures, but frankly this a bit ludicrous; even
still I haven't found a way to format the date in the clock applet, for
example. {sigh}.
AfC
Sydney
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