On 10/15/05, Thomas Taylor <linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 14 October 2005 02:25, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 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 > > Hi Dotan: > > What you have is the US default date format and what you want is the European > date format. > > I use Kmail under KDE 3.4.2 and it has a setup setting for date display > format. Never used T'bird so don't know what it has. Does it have a setting > in the setup dialog box for appearance? That's where it is in Kmail. > > Sorry I can't help more. > > Tom > > I goofed. Pressed the send before I had finished. > > Have you tried looking in the hidden directories of your home partition? > ~/.kde, ~/.gnome, ~/.thunderbird? > > -- > Tom Taylor Thanks, Tom. I had posted twice as my first post didn't go through right away (it went through five hours after I sent it!). In that thread, I was informed that Tbird only considers the gnome settings, so fixing the KDE settings was not affecting it. I wonder what it does if gnome is not installed?!? In any case, entereing as user: $ export LANG="he_IL.UTF.8" $ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF.8" gave me 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
