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Evolution uses wrong date format

Bug #14050 reported by David Johnson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

I have my Evolution timezone set to Europe/London, but Evolution displays dates
in US format (i.e. 04/28/2005 instead of 28/04/2005).

Specifically I've spotted this when creating a new appointment, task and meeting.

I'm using the latest version in Hoary.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

what locale are you using ("locale | zenity --text-info" in the alt-f2 dialog) ?

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David Johnson (dj-david-web) wrote :

Output of locale | zenity --text-info:

LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
LC_ALL=

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

do you have language-pack-en installed ? the date format is a part of the
translation.

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David Johnson (dj-david-web) wrote :

Ah, no I didn't have that and installing it fixed it.

I presumed the appropriate locale packages would have been installed
automatically based on the choices I made during installation.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

for the moment the package is not installed automatically but that's written in
the upgrade notes. I'm closing this bug since this issue is fixed, the
language-pack is a different topic.

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