Thunderbird Date Format

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/15/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
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> Dotan Cohen enlightened us with the following gems on 14/10/05 06:08:
> > The Thunderbird mail client defaults to the mm/dd/yyyy date format. I
> > need to replace that with dd/mm/yyyy. I found the answer is to change
> > LC_TIME to my local setting (he_IL). But where is that stored? I
> > tried:
> > /etc/profile
> > ~/profile
> > ~/.profile
> > ~/.bash_profile
> > ~/.bashrc
> >
> > and several others that turned up in searches. But none of them have
> > this setting. Where is it located in Fedora Core 4? Thank you.
> have you tried system-config-language ?
> I had this problem, but I hadn't noticed that GNOME was set to US
> English (as I don't use it)
> It seems that thunderbird uses the GNOME language/locale settings, so
> changing that fixed it.
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> Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX

Thank you. I did:
$ export LANG="he_IL.UTF.8"
$ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF.8"

and then logged out and back in. That solved it- at least I have
dd/mm/yy. I'd really like dd-mm-yyyy but I guess that the Thunderbird
developers did not think that one could be so picky! But that's what
extensions are for, no?

Dotan
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