SOLVED: Problem w/GNUMail 1.1.0pre1 shows dates as "yesterday %r"

[René Berber]

On 2003-04-28 09:31:54 -0500 Rob Burns <rburns@softhome.net> wrote:

> I'm using recent cvs of gnustep, which might account for the different 
> behavior, but to clarify
>
> my LANG variable is alwaus set to en_US.UTF-8
>
> if my NSLanguages default is set to either Thai or English,  it works 
> well
>         example: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSLanguages "(Thai)"
>
> if I delete my NSLanguages default, it stops working fine
>         example: defaults delete NSGlobalDomian NSLanguages
>
> I couldn't tell exactly what values you were giving NSLanguages, but it 
> expects an array. hence the parenthasese up there. If it didn't get the 
> right values, it would probably appear as nil, the same as deleted. and 
> maybe explain why it still doesn't work, even when the NSLanguages 
> default is set. But really, it doesn't seem to me that the NSLanguages 
> default should have to be set.

Bingo!  That's it.  Changing the language default to a list value did 
correct the problem:

$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSLanguages "(English)"

Thanks!