On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:55, spmirowski 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 > > > >In that > >thread, I was informed that Tbird only considers the gnome settings, > >so fixing the KDE settings was not affecting it. > > > >Dotan > >http://technology-sleuth.com/index.php > > So then, How do I change Gnome to use YYYY/MM/DD? > In Windows I always change to ISO standard, now that > I noticed that US is default that is bugging me. > > Stephen > > Don't know about Gnome (isn't that the imp being advertised on tv for > Travelocity says Tom, ducking under table), but Kmail has the ability to > view the date in several formats including custom but KDE couldn't/wouldn't > put that FEATURE in the globals. > > Go figure. > > Tom > > > Does anyone know if a choice of date option is in Thunderbird 1.5 or > whether it can be changed in FC4? > > Stephen Hi Stephen: Since FC4 ships with Tbird 1.0.7 which I looked at, I can't help you on that. But, have you looked on the mozilla lists for this? That would be the most likely place to get information or work-arounds. HTH, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,967 US soldiers dead and counting
