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[C de-Avillez <question43676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #43676 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/43676

C de-Avillez proposed the following answer:
I do not disagree. My personal preference is that timestamping should be
*always* an user's choice. The system may impose a *default* ordering,
like what Ubuntu (and pretty much all Linux distros), and most of *IX,
and last, but not the least, Windows. What Windows has different is that
you can set the locale *and* immediately override it, by selecting
specific display formats for date & time, at the same place. On Gnome
(and, perhaps, also on KDE, I do not know) all you can set is the
locale. So, the bypass I offered.

Also, many applications will allow one to play with the formating.
Unfortunately, Evolution still does not allow for that. In your case,
and on my case, this is bothersome, but we have bypasses. There are
other cases where this gets even worse, like for people with learning
disabilities, where changing the date or time formatting is a real
problem (for example, Evo's usage of 'today' and 'yesterday' in lieu of
the actual date).

Some other applications will simply disregard the user preference, even
when explicitly set. Of course, these are clear, and unquestionably,
bugs. Here, some do not see it as bugs...

There are some bugs upstream about it (and I am just talking about Evo).
For whatever reason, this has never been considered a priority.

But. You point is well put, and perhaps we can raise the awareness.
Perhaps one way is to tag such bugs as Usability bugs -- which is
correct, since they *are* usability bugs (to my understanding, at
least), and since these bugs tend to get more attention.

(BTW: blame my 6801 vs. 8601 to my dyslexia. At least I did get it right
on previous posts ;-)

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