24 hour clock in Evolution

[Rick]

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 23:21 -0700, NoOp wrote: 
> On 07/12/2008 09:28 PM, Rick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:47 -0700, NoOp wrote: 
> 
> >> 
> >> There are several "won't fix' bugs filed regarding this that I'll not
> >> attempt to bother you with just yet. Please (from a terminal) do the
> >> following:
> >> 
> >> 1. Cut&Paste&Post the output of the following command and post back here:
> >> 
> >> locale
> > 
> > rick at DeepThought:~$ locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> > rick at DeepThought:~$ 
> > 
> > Now, where did all that en_US come from? I set the locale at Jerusalem,
> > and the US keyboard is not now even among the keyboard indicator
> > options.
> > 
> >> 
> >> 2. Enter the following. It will bring up Evolution - please verify that
> >> your email times show 24 hour vs am/pm and that the local clock on your
> >> panel display remains at its current setting:
> > 
> > The calendar is 24. The mail is am/pm. Of course Evolution is already
> > open, since I am reading your letter. I saved you letter in draft when I
> > closed all iterations of Evolution after running the line below, but I
> > seem unable to take up the writing below your quoted statement, so I'll
> > write here. Upon reopening Evolution, the calendar remains at 24 and the
> > mail at am/pm. No change is evident.
> 
> Interesting... I've tried the same on both Gutsy (Evo 2.12.1) and Hardy
> (Evo 2.22.2) and entering:
> 
> LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 /usr/bin/evolution
> 
> from a terminal brings up everything in Evo in 24 hour format -
> calendar, emails, email list. My locale's are also set to:
> 
> S$ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> so I'm surprised that it does not set your's to 24 hours also. Did you
> close Evolution before the LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 /usr/bin/evolution
> command? If you did it while Evolution was open then the command will
> have no effect; the command is meant to _start_ evolution with those
> time settings. Can you please try again with Evo closed?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Evolution was open and I called up a second iteration, which did not
work. I should have expected that, but pasting does not work when the
source is closed. Now I have pasted the code into a text editor and then
copied and pasted it from there to the Terminal. For some reason, E just
closed. With E closed the code ran as you expected, and I had 24 until E
crashed, then am/pm reappeared. Now I'm back to 24 after replaying the
code, and recovery. Let's see how long this will last.

Thanks, Rick