for those who came in late: The problem was evolution wasn't using the locale I'd set when started form the panel, but it was correct when started from a gnome-terminal.
The solution is to put locale settings in /etc/profile (I used LANG, but you could use probably use any combination of LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION or LC_ALL). I previously had them in /etc/bash/profile, which worked for bash, but not for gnome et al. so the last line in /etc/profile now reads export LANG="en_AU" and evolution shows the correct (localised) date format. Regards, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
