[wellylug] Dates in Evolution/Gnome/Ubuntu

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Wed Mar 15 14:39:35 NZDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:14 +1300, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> Ok, now there is too much US input to a lot of computer software.  I have 
> evolution installed and was busy updating contacts - oh oh a way to store 
> people's birthdays!
> 
> Sigh, it wants the date in mm/dd/yyyy format rather than the slightly 
> more intelligent dd/mm/yyyy format.
> 
> In Ubuntu you can set the default language to English (New Zealand) and 
> (being a primarily Windows user) I assumed that the language would also 
> set things like the correct date format.
> 
> What did I miss?

don't think that you missed anything... :-(

I have Evolution with all the right location settings, but it still
wants to do it this way. (on Centos/Redhat)

Fancy some hacking anyone? :-)



-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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