| Summary: | Respect locale LC_TIME to format date in message list | ||
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| Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | marius glauser <seelenhirt> |
| Component: | UI/Message List | Assignee: | users |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | other | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
Just set "%c" (The preferred date and time representation for the current locale.) as your date_format in Claws Mail, and message list will always use the locale's preferred format. Sorry for the late answer. |
The date and time format in the "Date" column in the message list is "%x(%a) %H:%M" per default (date_format in clawsrc). The format presumably changes if claws is started with (locale) environment variable LANG or LC_MESSAGES (or others?) set to something different than en_*. And then stays that way even when the environment variable changes back. (Not sure if I got that really right here.) Right now I can only do the following two things to change the date/time format: - Start claws with LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 once. After that date_format is in the right format ("%a, %d.%m.%Y %H:%M" in my case) - Edit the format in the preferences manually. One problem persists though. The abbreviations of the week days (%a) are in english instead of german. In my opinion the date format should respect locale LC_TIME and not the general language. I usually have set LANG to something different than LC_TIME. I briefly scanned the code but could not find where to make these changes so I hope someone else can point me to it.