Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Wackojacko

Michael M. wrote:

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:


Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but
really mean the 4th of December.  Still, your system should know the
real day, and really so should you.  Therefore, I am not asking for a
fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system.



Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.

OTOH, if it's April 12th ...

... it's probably raining.

I'm not seeing the difference! :-)



Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these.

aptitude search icedove-locale

HTH

Wackojacko


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Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
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Wackojacko wrote:
 Michael M. wrote:
 On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:

 Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but
 really mean the 4th of December.  Still, your system should know the
 real day, and really so should you.  Therefore, I am not asking for a
 fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system.


 Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.

 OTOH, if it's April 12th ...

 ... it's probably raining.

 I'm not seeing the difference! :-)


 Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these.
 
 aptitude search icedove-locale
 
 HTH
 
 Wackojacko
 
 

Ah, but if I do that, then the language of my menus and everything else
changes.  The LC_TIME variable on the other hand just fixes the dates to
display like they should, and leaves the rest of the things alone.  A
perfect solution to my date problem.  Florian's advice went straight
into my button, and now when I click on IceDove, it looks fine.  I would
imagine Ken has also implemented this, or he's still evaluating other MUAs.

As for the weather in Seattle, I can relate to that.  It rains a lot
here too.  That's good for the flowers that we export. ;)

Joe
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Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Wackojacko

Joe Hart wrote:

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Wackojacko wrote:

Michael M. wrote:

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:


Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but
really mean the 4th of December.  Still, your system should know the
real day, and really so should you.  Therefore, I am not asking for a
fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system.


Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.

OTOH, if it's April 12th ...

... it's probably raining.

I'm not seeing the difference! :-)



Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these.

aptitude search icedove-locale

HTH

Wackojacko




Ah, but if I do that, then the language of my menus and everything else
changes.  The LC_TIME variable on the other hand just fixes the dates to
display like they should, and leaves the rest of the things alone.  A
perfect solution to my date problem.  Florian's advice went straight
into my button, and now when I click on IceDove, it looks fine.  I would
imagine Ken has also implemented this, or he's still evaluating other MUAs.

As for the weather in Seattle, I can relate to that.  It rains a lot
here too.  That's good for the flowers that we export. ;)

Joe
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Joe

Thanks for the reminder, and for archives sake.  I had the same problem 
and AFAICR it was *not* the icedove-locale package that made it work.


Google suggested putting

#Locale
LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO-8859-15
export LC_TIME

in ~.bash_profile and it was this that made the time display correctly.

Of course this works across all user apps, which is what I wanted, so YMMV.

HTH

Wackojacko


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Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:

 Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but
 really mean the 4th of December.  Still, your system should know the
 real day, and really so should you.  Therefore, I am not asking for a
 fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system.


Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.

OTOH, if it's April 12th ...

... it's probably raining.

I'm not seeing the difference! :-)


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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream. --S. Jackson


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