On 10/17/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 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 > > > > This comment doesn't just fit for Thunderbird but for Linux in general. > > I prefer ISO date format under US or Canadian English as a system wide > default. It would be nice to do this without having to jump through a > bunch of hoops to achieve it. > > It would be nice to have a choice in data/time setting or language > settings similar to what is in (yech) Windows. Something that would > allow setting the date format and choosing the time display format. > > I tried mucking around in the date format settings but didn't get any > success. > > Robin Laing > I don't think that would be linux-specific, rather KDE (or Gnome) specific. Linux handles dates only as unix timestamps, no? Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com/index.php
