Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread John Lange
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:02 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:29 -0600, John Lange wrote: > > In every programming language I've used, plus things like OpenOffice > > mentioned above, the number of formatting options for dates and times > > is mind numbing. So, I would have to

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:29 -0600, John Lange wrote: > In every programming language I've used, plus things like OpenOffice > mentioned above, the number of formatting options for dates and times > is mind numbing. So, I would have to think that "yes", there are > many-many variations. Given that o

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread John Lange
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:06 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > You can write there almost anything. It's using strftime internally, > > thus it understands all format specifiers from it, plus a special one > > "%ad". There is an obvious lack of information in user docs, though > > I'm not sure whethe

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Barnes
> You can write there almost anything. It's using strftime internally, > thus it understands all format specifiers from it, plus a special one > "%ad". There is an obvious lack of information in user docs, though > I'm not sure whether a regular user would understand all those %.. tags. Speaking o

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I hadn't noticed it was editable. That's good. Not sure about the %ad > format though (I can see it tries to be smart about "today", > "yesterday" > etc. but for dates further in the past it seems to fall back to one of > the standard

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:47 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now > > allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message > > headers (maybe it's

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Crha
Hi, On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now > allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message > headers (maybe it's been around for a while but I'd never noticed it > before). I

[Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message headers (maybe it's been around for a while but I'd never noticed it before). Two things occur to me: 1) It would be nice to be able to add more formats, e.g. I l