Ubuntu
kdepim package

Nonsense format of date

Bug #418563 reported by LimCore on 2009-08-25

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	KDE PIM	Fix Released	Medium	kde-bugs #196108
	kdepim (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Kmail uses the non-sense date format 12-31-2009

This format was probably designed in contest to find most logical date format, and then implement the exact opposite.

While this could be a matter of preference, it would be really good to have option to change this format (perhaps this is problem with KDE or system locales, not in kmail).

In kmail I mean for example the dates of groups when grouping in mails view.

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LimCore (limcore) wrote on 2009-08-25:

kmail_imperial_date_format.png Edit (101.5 KiB, image/png)

I set yyyy-mm-dd in
1) kmail
2) kde system config

and all dates in kmail are ok, except the grouping-headers dates, as in screenshot

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote on 2009-08-25:

What locale is your system set to? From your screenshot, it looks to be English, where this date format is perfectly normal.

Changed in kdepim (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote on 2009-08-25:

Oh, the KMail headers are the only thing disregarding the setting. I'd file a bug at bugs.kde.org about that.

Changed in kdepim (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote on 2010-05-27:

Thank you for reporting this bug. According to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196108 it has been fixed. Please follow up on that report if that is not the case.

FWIW 12-31-2009 may seem like nonsense, but it is actually how dates are written in the USA ;).