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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Dates in KMail (was: Sorry about the date on my sent mails)
From:       John Aldrich <john () chattanooga ! net>
Date:       2000-02-27 17:56:58
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, George Staikos wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Agreed! No sense reinventing the wheel every time you need a wheel.
:-)
	John

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