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Thunderbird date formatting

Asked by Steve Garton

HI there,

I've noticed that the date formatting in Thunderbird (1.5.0.10) uses the American mm/dd/yyyy format when viewing a folder (except when things are <1 Week old, of course). Is there a way to modify this so I can get british formatting (dd/mm/yyyy)? I can't seem to find an option anywhere.

I have a windows version of Thunderbird on my USB stick (of the same version) and the date is is the 'correct' format there!

Cheers,

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

You have to change your the date settings for the locale in the system settings. Depending on which desktop-manager you use, in KDE this can be done in "System Settings"->Regional&Accessibility->COuntry, region&language.

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Steve Garton (sheepeatingtaz) said : 		#2

Thanks for the info, but I'm using the Brown ;)

I've changed the default in System>Administration>Language Support to English (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), but by the looks of things that's only for new users (as Thunderbird is still displaying wrong). Any ideas how I can change it for existing users?

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Best Wolf Canis (wolf-canis) said : 		#3

Hello sheepeatingtaz,
at the login screen choose options->language. Choose your preferred language and login. You should be asked, whether this shall your default or not.

Hope that helps, in my case it did.

Mr Canis

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Steve Garton (sheepeatingtaz) said : 		#4

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nobody (tuimonen) said : 		#5

My KDE has been configured to DD/MM/YYYY, but still Thunderbird gives the MM/DD/YYYY. The only way to fix this is to use the 'export LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8"' before launching thunderbird.