On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 04:35:52PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> Package: icedove
> Version: 1.5.0.8.dfsg1-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> icedove displays mesage dates in MMDDYY format, which is really jarring
> for anyone used to the sane DDMMYY or even saner YYYYMMDD formats - it's
> impossible to tell what date is actually being displayed without viewing
> enough other dates (with day numbers above 12) to figure out if the
> first two digits are indicating Day or Month.
>
> this wouldn't normally warrant a bug report, except that there does
> not appear to be any configuration option to set date style. so
> icedove/thunderbird users are stuck with the braindamaged US date style.
>
> please fix or send this report upstream.
The date format is taken from LC_TIME ... unless this isn't the case
anymore, I don't consider this a bug.
- Alexander
p.s. please take care that the bug is listed as To: or CC: when
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