On 10/15/05, Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dotan Cohen enlightened us with the following gems on 14/10/05 06:08: > > 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
