Re: [Evolution] New Evolution installation -- three short questions

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > The 24 hour / 12 hour is only for calendar and tasks - the format for
> > mail listings is taken from the Locale of your setup.  I'm sure that
> > must be in the FAQ somewhere.
>
> Actually, the Calendar is showing 24hour times. Hard to remember which
> is which? 
>
> On the other hand, the message list window writes dates as MM/DD/YY,
> despite the fact that the system setting is for DD/MM/YY. There is
> something to be said for consistency, and even for actually observing
> "system-wide" options. 
>
> But bravo for the man who thought up the idea of using different formats
> in different windows, evidently more or less at random.

No, it's not random - but it's not good.  As far as I can remember it
comes from the time when the components of evo were individual
applications, and the calendar application did have it's own idea, not
only of the presentation of dates & times, but also it's own idea and
implementation of timezones.  This still persists in 2.12 and has been
the cause of problems when timezones change their definition (distros
always forget to update the evo definitions).  I think I saw somewhere
that 2.22 uses the system TZ info now.

P.