[wellylug] Dates in Evolution/Gnome/Ubuntu

[Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:39 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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? :-)
Why??

What does "echo $LANG" in a terminal return.

Well my debian setup does it fine (Gnome 2.12.2, Evolution 2.4.21)
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