I cannot quite reproduce this issue; instead I see that evolution gets started here, is set to today's date but the small calendar view immediately switches to January 1, 1970. I think this is an issue with the applets though, rather than in evolution itself.
To clarify, you're seeing this bug with the standard gnome-panel, right? (ie. not gnome Shell, and not unity?)
I cannot quite reproduce this issue; instead I see that evolution gets started here, is set to today's date but the small calendar view immediately switches to January 1, 1970. I think this is an issue with the applets though, rather than in evolution itself.
To clarify, you're seeing this bug with the standard gnome-panel, right? (ie. not gnome Shell, and not unity?)