24 hour time in Thunderbird -

[Konstantin Svist]

That's not a very good approach...
I'm using the en_US locale, but always customize my clock output to 
display in 24hr format. KDE allows me to do this.
I don't really like how Thunderbird thinks it's smarter than I.



Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>  > Does anyone know how to get Thunderbird to use 24 hour time when listing 
>  > email "Date?"
>  >
>  > I use a large font and need the space that the stupid AM/PM takes for 
>  > useful [to me] information!
>  >
>  > I know this is may not be a Fedora question but ...
>  
> It depends on your locale settings how applications from Mozilla.org
> (Firefox, Thunderbird etc.) display the date. If you prefer ISO-8601
> format, use the special locale named "en_DK". For example, UTF-8
> users may set "LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8; export LC_TIME" before running
> Mozilla.org applications. If you only want to change date format
> in Thunderbird I'd recommend a shell alias or a small wrapper script.
>
> See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format for further
> details. (You'll find a lot of cool tips & tricks in MozillaZine.)
>
> 	Hope it helps ... Andreas
>
>