[Evolution] Date and time format

[Andre Klapper]

hi,

(would be a great question for guenther who's out for a few days, i'm
going to quote some things below already posted by him ;-)

Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 00:53 +0200 schrieb Lars Karset Grimsrud:
> Is there a way to make Evolution display date and time more in
> accordance with ISO 8601 (24 hour clock, YYYY-MM-DD) rather than the
> English/American format?
> 
> I've searched through the settings, but am not able to find it. For e-
> mails that is, not the calendar.

you won't find it, because it isn't an evolution, but a gnome wide
setting (to provide consistency). 
the format uses your locale setting, particular the LC_TIME
value. as far as i know, you can change your setting either for your
entire desktop or for an application explicitly.
if you do not want to change your desktop setting, start evolution by a
wrapper script: create a script (don't forget the executable flag) and
place it in your path before the evolution binary is found or call it
directly (following example uses "en_GB.UTF-8" as locale).

--- snip ---
#!/bin/sh
export LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
/usr/bin/evolution &
--- snip ---

so at least you will get the 24h clock by choosing en_GB as locale, but
i don't know if a locale exists that provides YYYY-MM-DD encoding of the
date format, sorry. :-/

cheers,
andre

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