Re: 24 hour clock in Evolution

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 06:46 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
Rick,

Rick wrote:
It has been recommended that I use a pure Ubuntu program instead of one
of those "third party" thingies, so here I am asking about Evolution. In
Calendar, the 24 hour day is displayed, but in Mail, I see AM and PM. I
have searched the sources, but have found nowhere to change the mail
listings to the 24 hour clock. I will greatly appreciate your assistance
in solving this problem.

By the way, in Nautilus the dates are shown day - month - year, whereas
in Evolution they display as month - day - hour (AM/PM). This will
certainly be rectified when I learn how to make the change in Evolution.

Of course you realize that there is no such thing as a pure Ubuntu
program. Ubuntu is a distribution... not a software vendor...

Yes, of course I realize that, but thanks for the reminder.

snip

What happens is that Sunbird/Lightning are third party applications
(like Evolution) but are not BUNDLED WITH Ubuntu... rather, you have to
get them elsewhere. The problem you are experiencing is a localization
bug of Sunbird/Lightning. My recommendation is to go the the project's
page : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ and submit... but in
your particular case, but 399851 (
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399851 ) has already been
submotted to that effect.

Yes, that's the bug. It occurs in Ubuntu, but not in Windows.

One of the Bugzilla comments includes the following:
"I am running a english install of Ubuntu, with my location set to
Sweden (we use 24 hour time). Also in the Gnome settings, i have
configured to display 24 hour time."

I also am running an English installation, with my location set to
Jerusalem. In Israel we use 24 hour time. But what are these GNOME time
settings? In System / Administration / Time and Date there is nowhere to
adjust 12/24. Please help me to find the GNOME settings.


Note that Sunbird/Lightning is still version 0.8 ... so they are working
on critical features... localization seems to be less priority, but I
believe that once the product is finished, the quality will be same
level as the rest of Mozilla Foundation's software.

I realize it's still in development. I've been following it in Windows
since 0.3 (I think), but the problem also manifests itself in
Thunderbird! That's why I suspected an Ubuntu system problem, but that
idea was rejected by some other contributors to the List. That's why I
turned back to Evolution after having found it inadequate previously.

I suggest that either you like the general software and you stick to it
and submit bugs and help make it better (in the true open source way -
not necessarily coding, but providing constructive feedback to the
project)... or, if you find other applications are better, switch over
(that's another very common mechanism by which open source gets better -
people use the better apps instead of the ones they might be "stuck"
with on proprietary systems).

Good advice. I am certainly interested in contributing to the success of
Linux and open source, but in the meantime, if I am to move my
activities from Windows, I need applications (and an OS) that provide me
with the functionality I require on a day to day basis. I use TB in
Windows together with EssentialPIM.

Personally, I don't like Evolution. It's too heavy. Looks too much like
Outlook (though some people might actually WANT that). And for my work,
it's too slow at each boot scanning he several hundred hierarchical
folders I have.

I appreciate your preferences, but do you happen to know anything about
setting a 24 hour time string in Evolution?

I hope this helps,
Gilles.

Thanks.

Rick
--

Currently running Ubuntu 8.04. First Linux was Suse 4.2 in 1996. Tried
out a distro every year since then, waiting for required performance.
Ubuntu 8.04 is the longest trial ever, though it still lacks certain
functionality.


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