American Date in Thunderbird

[spmirowski]

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>> On Friday 14 October 2005 02:25, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>> > 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.
>>> >
>>> > Dotan Cohen
>>> > IE-Only.com
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>In that
>thread, I was informed that Tbird only considers the gnome settings,
>so fixing the KDE settings was not affecting it. 
>
>Dotan
>http://technology-sleuth.com/index.php



So then, How do I change Gnome to use YYYY/MM/DD?
In Windows I always change to ISO standard, now that 
I noticed that US is default that is bugging me.

Stephen