Re: [Evolution] Date Format

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 08:26 -0600, Barbara Tobias wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and Evolution 2.30.3 and rely heavily on the
> calendar reminders.  I have just realized that, although I have (under
> Edit | Preferences |Calendar and Tasks | Display) the format set to
> M/D/Y, reminders are showing up as though they were entered as D/M/Y.
> For instance, a birthday reminder for September 12, 2010 just popped up
> a couple of days ago as a reminder for 12/9/2010.  I have also noticed
> that, although I have set the time format (under Edit | Preferences |
> Calendar and Tasks | General) to 12 hour (AM/PM), when I enter an
> appointment, it immediately changes the time to 24 hour format.
>
> Is there another setting somewhere that should be changed?

In general Evo takes its localization info from the locale (i.e. the
LC_* environment variables) which are set in the shell before running
Evo. Thus for example I have LC_TIME set to en_GB so the date formats
look right (:-). However if the preferences setting isn't being obeyed
by reminders then it would seem to be a bug, so maybe you should report
it to BZ.

poc