Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.22 and Date Format

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 09:28 -0700, Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This has been asked before but no clear answer how to get this working can be found so one more try.. :-)
>
> I'd like Evolution to show all dates in the ISO 8601 format, currently Evolution shows confusing amount of 
> different format, e.g., 5:23 AM, Today 8:23 AM, Yesterday 11:23 AM, Thu 26, 4:23 AM, Jun 26, 4:30 AM, ... 
> So I'd like to see only one format to be used to avoid confusion and ISO 8601 would look nice, e.g., 
> 2008-07-10 23:32.
>
> I've tried using different locales, mainly the well-known en_DK which defines ISO 8601 format for its 
> LC_TIME, but it does not work, i.e.,
>
> LC_TIME=en_DK evolution
>
> still comes up without ISO dates while for example
>
> LC_TIME=en_DK thunderbird
>
> works as expected. Using LC_ALL, LANG, or other variants does not help nor does en_DK.UTF8 or locales.
>
> So, how could I change the way Evolution represents dates? I'm using Evolution-2.22 on Fedora 9.
>
> Thanks!

        Hi,
there is no way at the moment, the strings representing date formats in
Evolution are localized as other strings.

There is a bug about adding such configuration option to Evolution, but
not fixed yet.
        Bye,
        Milan