After some scrounging around in Ximian's bugzilla database, I found a bug ID for this. Looks like quite a few other folks would like to see this fixed. No sign of any work being done on it though. And Ximian seems to have the vote-for-bug functionality turned off in their bugzilla, so we can't help them decide which bugs are most important... :-/
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5137 -Steve On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:56, Eric Lambart wrote: > I agree it would be really nice to have a configurable date/time display > format, but no, it is not possible to do this now. My main complaint > isn't that these various formats are confusing, but that they take up > too much column space that could be used for displaying a longer > subject. > > Glad to hear someone else agrees, but for now we're out of luck. > Hopefully you can get used to the format... or else submit a patch to > make it user-configurable! > > Super-customizable is something Evolution is not, but it sure works well > in general. > > Eric > > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:29, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > I've just migrated my mail to Evolution and mostly like it but I'm still > > having trouble getting a few things to work right. > > > > One problem is the Date format for emails. The timestamp is displayed in > > a half dozen different formats depending on how old the message is. Some > > include the year, some dont. Some say what day it is and some don't. > > Some don't even include the time. I'm sure somebody thought it was a > > cute idea but I find it highly, unbelievably, mind-bogglingly annoying. > > Is there anyway to configure Evolution to use just a single, consistent > > date format for all emails? I've looked through the settings dialog but > > can't find any way to fix it. > > > > Example entries from my Date column now: > > > > Today 5:18 PM > > Yesterday 12:42 AM > > 1.43 PM (if it's not today or yesterday, what day is it?) > > Mon 9:48 AM > > Sep 03 10:46 PM > > Dec 23 2002 > > > > What I'd like (this or any consistent format will do): > > > > 10 Sep 2003 17:18 > > 09 Sep 2003 12:42 > > 23 Dec 2002 18:42 > > ... > > > > -Steve _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
