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

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:24:16AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:43 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Try executing Evo thus:
>
> % LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 evolution
The LC_TIME setting on my system is already set to that value:-

    chris$ locale
    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8
    LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE=C
    LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=

... but I tried " LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 evolution", I still get the
dates in US format.  It's something else other than LC_TIME which
sets the format in Evolution.

-- 
Chris Green