I have set the timezone to Australia/Darwin, however evolution prints dates as month/day/year, and not day/month/year. (In start time and end time for calendar appointments). The time format should come from the system timezone, or at least be an option somewhere. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.21-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 irda java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nfs nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Similarly for the gnome panel, which ignores my British time zone and en_GB locale setting.
what does 'locale' give ? comment #2, what is the current & expected behaviour? Keep in mind I am no expert on i18n specifics in parts of the world.
> what does 'locale' give ? $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= is this a leading question :) no doubt you're going to tell me that this is the posix format for dates! > comment #2, what is the current & expected behaviour? Keep in mind I am no > expert on i18n specifics in parts of the world. "... evolution prints dates as month/day/year, and not day/month/year." ie, the 5th of June, 2005 would print as 06/05/2005 (current behaviour) and not 05/06/2005 (expected behaviour). The correct format seems to be in /usr/lib/locale/en_AU/LC_TIME so I tried `export LANG=en_AU` and then ran evolution. - Now the dates are in my local format! (eg, problem existed between keyboard and chair :) Don't know about Peter's comment though. FYI, locale now says: $ locale LANG=en_AU LC_CTYPE="en_AU" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU" LC_TIME="en_AU" LC_COLLATE="en_AU" LC_MONETARY="en_AU" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU" LC_PAPER="en_AU" LC_NAME="en_AU" LC_ADDRESS="en_AU" LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU" LC_ALL=
Sorry folks, I had a typo in /etc/profile. Now fixed.
closing due to posters last comment.
