On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 10:20, Juha Ylitalo wrote:
> (In case it makes any difference, my main platforms are RedHat 7.3 and 
> FreeBSD 4.5 with Evolution 1.0.3)
>  
> In Evolution's calendar's tools -> calendar setting offers us
> possibility to choose between 12/24h time format, but as far as I've
> been able to figure out, thats the only place, where user is allowed to
> get time format fixed and even then mail (for example message list)
> doesn't seem to be using that information at all. Another related issue,
> which seems very annoying from my personal point of view is that
> whenever you set dates, its always in mm/dd/yyyy format (while I would
> prefer dd.mm.yyyy).

Didn't you know, the USA way is the only way!

> When one searches for use of strftime from evolution source files, it
> seems that it would be relatively easy job to create patch that would
> fix them for my personal taste, but its not real solution, since there
> would be large number of users, who would hate my settings and noone
> would be willing to put them into CVS.

Hmm, well a lot (most?  all?) of the date formats (for display) are
localised strings.

> So the real question is that has there been any work on getting
> evolution wide configuration dialog for time and date formats ? 
> gnucash has pretty good dialog for setting date and time formats in
> settings -> preferences -> international, which might be worth
> "stealing" for.

Not that i know of.  As i said a lot of things are locale dependent.  Or
from other standards (like the Date field in the message display, which
follows rfc822), at least from the mailers perspective.




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