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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Dates in KMail (was: Sorry about the date on my sent mails)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-02-27 13:14:56
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, George Staikos wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > Suggestion for KMail:
> > Would it be possible to re-do the dates on email so that they
> > conform to the local format? For example, here in the US, we use
> > the Month/Day/Year format, but over in Europe and other places,
> > they prefer the Day/Month/Year.
> > I'd like to see a switch so you can "reformat" the date field to
> > your local settings. This would be especially nice for sorting
> > messages, etc. It gets kinda confusing for me to see that here.
>
>    If it is not already in place, this facility should be in the KDE
> Base. We should be able to pass a date into the base classes and have
> it formatted based on a system-wide setting.  No point in putting
> this code in *every* app that uses dates.

Have a look at KLocale in kdecore.

Cheers,
Waldo

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