American Date in Thunderbird

[Thomas Taylor]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:55, spmirowski wrote:
> On Friday 14 October 2005 02:25, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>>>> > 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
> >
> >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
>
> Don't know about Gnome (isn't that the imp being advertised on tv for
> Travelocity says Tom, ducking under table), but Kmail has the ability to
> view the date in several formats including custom but KDE couldn't/wouldn't
> put that FEATURE in the globals.
>
> Go figure.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Does anyone know if a choice of date option is in Thunderbird 1.5 or
> whether it can be changed in FC4?
>
> Stephen

Hi Stephen:

Since FC4 ships with Tbird 1.0.7 which I looked at, I can't help you on that.  

But, have you looked on the mozilla lists for this?  That would be the most 
likely place to get information or work-arounds.

HTH,
Tom

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