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Bug 519527 - Time in email preview pane should have same format as gnome system clock
Time in email preview pane should have same format as gnome system clock
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205137
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.24.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-29 14:49 UTC by Johnny Proton
Modified: 2009-07-03 08:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Johnny Proton 2008-02-29 14:49:17 UTC 
Version: 2.12

Clock in email detail view should follow System Preference.

In my preview pane, I end up looking at emails like this:

  Subject:   End of Day Update
  Date:       Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:48:20 -0500

My feeble brain was not capable of calculating what time this email was sent, because I had been drinking heavily.

My system clock at that time would have been 11:48:20 PM which would have been much easier on me.


Distribution: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Gnome Release: 2.20.3 2008-01-08 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.20.1
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-01-18 18:21:14 UTC 
Works for me in 2.24. Example:

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:15:44 -0800 (21:15 CET)

Is this still an issue in 2.22 or 2.24? If so, please tell the exact version you run and set the Version field accordingly.
Comment 2 Johnny Proton 2009-01-19 23:49:15 UTC 
Andre, I don't think you understand what my point was here.

In my Gnome system clock preference, I set the clock to be displayed in 12 hr format, for *only* my time zone, and not to show seconds.  

At the time of receipt of your comment, my system clock reported:

  Sun Jan 18, 6:21 PM

But the email view looks like:

  Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (13:21 EST)

Do you understand how much more difficult it is on the end user to make them look at UTC, then 24 hour time, etc?  Evolution should just display its time stamps in the same manner the user chooses to format the system clock, then everything will be consistent.

Make sense?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2009-01-20 00:10:50 UTC 
Ah. Gotcha. Interesting idea.
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2009-07-03 08:54:17 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. I would use similar bug for this, thus marking as a duplicate. Do not expect sharing setup between two "unrelated" applications, Evolution will have its own date/time format setup.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205137 ***