Re: [Evolution] Date format

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:06 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:53 +0000, Richard wrote:
> > Hi
> > on the main message list on the GUI is there anyway of changing the date
> > format from mmddyy to ddmmyy
> > On the preview pane the date is as 
> > Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:48:08 +0100 (01/05/2011 10:48:08 AM)
> > but all the messages are listed like 12/06/2010 for example.
> > which is in mmddyy format, but for us Brits it reads ad the twelfth day
> > of June
>
> The date format generally follows the system locale - in a terminal type
> 'locale' and the LANG entry should be something like en_GB - if it's
> en_US, that's why it's displaying the date in the bizarre US format.

I should add as well that you can change the locale when starting Evo
from a command line by doing

   LANG=en_GB evolution

so you can make sure it is doing the correct thing.

P.