On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 11:17 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jul 18 09:21:14, mwg...@btinternet.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 13:22 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > > On Jul 17 09:59:01, mwg...@btinternet.com wrote:
> > > > HI All,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to resolve a trivial, but annoying problem with
> > > > using
> > > > Evolution mail on my OpenBSD setup. The style of date used in
> > > > the
> > > > list
> > > > of mail in my inbox is in US format, i.e month first, day
> > > > second,
> > > > and I
> > > > want it is UK format, day first, then month.
> > > 
> > > Does Evolution itself have a knob for that?
> > 
> > No, unfortunately it doesn't.  It picks up its behaviour from the
> > locale.  That's definitely how it works on other systems, FreeBSD,
> > NetBSD, Linux etc.
> 
> Googling "evolution date format", this is the first hit:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-change-time-format.html.en

Yes, I found that too.  It does change the date format, but only on the
header display in the email, not the column for the list of emails in
the inbox. That gets its setting from locale for some strange reason.
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