GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 303420
Problem with date formats
Last modified: 2009-07-03 08:53:40 UTC
Distribution: Debian 3.1 Package: Evolution Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.8.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: Problem with date formats Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Miscellaneous Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Description of Problem: Dates appear to have the day and month transposed. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Load Evolution and view a date, e.g. in Tasks for an entered task. 2. 3. Actual Results: Month number appears to be in front of day number. Expected Results: How often does this happen? Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2005-05-07 22:59 UTC ------- The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was ross@hyperquantum.com.au.
does not look like an evolution bug - what are your LOCALE and LC_TIME settings? can you describe the issue a bit more explicitly?
I am also seeing this bug in Ubuntu Dapper. $ env | grep ^L LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LOGNAME=sltam LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 I expect the date/time format to be "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" (due to en_DK) in the message list. However, it is sometimes shown as "MMM DD HH:MM", sometimes "WWW HH:MM", sometimes "Yesterday|Today HH:MM", sometimes simply "HH:MM". I think we should switch off this "smart" but anti-l10n behavior.
Do you still NEEDINFO?
yes, reopening.
I hope you can still reproduce the problem. I will not be able to help you do so. I swore that I will not install evolution again unless bug 337394 gets fixed, which looks unlikely.
Thanks for the bug report. I would use more general bug for this, thus marking as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205137 ***