Thunderbird Date Format

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/17/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 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:
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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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>- --
> >>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
> > http://technology-sleuth.com/index.php
> >
>
> This comment doesn't just fit for Thunderbird but for Linux in general.
>
> I prefer ISO date format under US or Canadian English as a system wide
> default.  It would be nice to do this without having to jump through a
> bunch of hoops to achieve it.
>
> It would be nice to have a choice in data/time setting or language
> settings similar to what is in (yech) Windows.  Something that would
> allow setting the date format and choosing the time display format.
>
> I tried mucking around in the date format settings but didn't get any
> success.
>

> Robin Laing
>

I don't think that would be linux-specific, rather KDE (or Gnome)
specific. Linux handles dates only as unix timestamps, no?

Dotan
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