Re: [Evolution] Evolution on xubuntu 8.10, date format wrong

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:29:51AM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 19:07 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > I suspect this may be a bit of a well known problem but my Googling
> > hasn't come up with any good answers.
> >
> > I'm running GNOME evolution 2.24.3 on xubuntu 8.10 and the dates in
> > the Calendar appear in US format, i.e. MM/DD/YYYY.  I'm in the UK and
> > want European format dates - DD/MM/YYYY.
> >
> > My locale is set to en_GB.UTF-8 and nothing else seems to get the date
> > format wrong, I've just checked Orage for example and that definitely
> > says today is 25/02/2009 whereas Evolution thinks it's 02/25/2009.
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this or is it a bug?
>
> If you are running xubuntu I presume you aren't running a Gnome desktop
> - you need to tell gconf what the locale is as that's where Evo gets
> it's information from.
>
> I'll leave someone else to tell you how to do it as I can't remember,
> sorry.
OK, thanks, you're quite right I don't run a Gnome desktop.  I'll have
a hunt around knowing what you've told me and I'll also wait in hope
that someone else here can tell me what to do.

I've tried looking in gconf-editor and that doesn't seem to have any
date format configuration or locale settings.

I'll ask on the xfce list too.

-- 
Chris Green