American Date in Thunderbird

[Richard England]

spmirowski wrote:

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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
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> 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
>
Perhaps these will help.  May need some experimentation:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format
http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/archives/2005/08/31/thunderbird-date-format/

I think setting   export LC_TIME=en_DK  before running Thunderbird would 
get you roughly what you want.  At lease, it worked for me.

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