24 hour clock in Evolution

[Gilles Gravier]

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...

Canonical (which is the company behing Ubuntu) builds a distribution. 
They pack a bunch of applications into a distribution.

Evolution is such an application. It is the default mail/calendar 
application for the GNOME environment (which Ubuntu runs - it's another 
story if you run KUBUNTU which is KDE based).

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.

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 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).

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 hope this helps,
Gilles.