On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 12:32 +0100, jorge santos wrote: > I live in Portugal and our date format is ISO (yyyy-mm-dd). Since I > always use all of my software in US English the date format changes > automatically to the mm-dd-yyyy format which is BAD for me, and I hate > it :). > > Is there a way to make it possible, in future Gnome releases, to select > the date formats independently from the Language selected by the user?
You're right that we could perhaps do a better job of this. On the plus side, because GNOME respects the *nix environment's choice of date format (which I suspect KDE doesn't if you can change it on the fly for running applications), it's relatively easy to do what you want. The global fix would be to set your LC_TIME environment variable to your chosen locale, so that gnome-session and all the apps launched in your session pick it up. Not sure which file you would have to edit to achieve this; would probably depend on which distro you're running. For specific apps, you should be able to use the same approach to override the date format on the command line, e.g. run 'LC_TIME=pt evolution' or whatever. (Not sure whether 'pt' is actually the right locale for you-- that doesn't seem to provide ISO format dates either.) Of course, you could encapsulate this in a launcher icon for easy access too. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
