On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:49 +0100, Veith, Patrick wrote: > Dear all (new-to-the-list alert), > > before i go to deep into evolution source i would like to ask, if there > is a known way to change the default behaviour of the "date > formatting" (<- sound fishy, or not ;) ) in mail view (i am using > Evolution 2.8.1 edgy). > > Right no i get the following different formats: > > 1. HH:MM > 2. today HH:MM > 3. Yesterday HH:MM > 4. <Day of the week> HH:MM > 5. DD. <Month>, 16:35 > 6. <Month> DD YYYY > > This is quite a large list of possible formats, which does not suite my > requirements very well. So i searched the ubuntu user groups and tried > to find a solution in the internet for a more strict formatting (e.g. > only HH:MM-DD.MM.YYYY). Is there a way to change the format? > > If not (which i suspect is the case): I would really like to have the > feature, and i would start to develop a eplugin or submit a patch > (having programmed quite a lot, that should be manageable for me). From > what i found searchin' the web, there were some people before me having > asked how to change the format, so there might already be an opinion > about this on this list. A suggestion where to look (is this possible as > a eplugin?) would be very welcome indeed.
You can create a new view-column, say absolute-date, and display the absolute date (without qualifying the date) there. The place where the qualification is done is in evolution/mail/meesage-list.c:1458 (filter_date) > cu > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Sankar _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
