Re: [Evolution] Date format



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.

You can change your localisation to UK/GB if you want - under Gnome go
to system -> administration -> language and select English(British) -
the change will take effect next time you login.

Alternatively in Evo you can go to Edit -> Preferences -> Mail
Preferences and select the Header tab.  At the bottom there's some drop
downs to select different formats - unfortunately it doesn't have the
standard British way though :-(

You can edit the format by clicking in the box. Just select one that's
similar to the non-bizarre way (:-) and change the dots to slashes.

poc




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