[plug] Thunderbird date format

[James Devenish]

In message <41591B50.3070903 at powerstech.com>
on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:05:36PM +0800, Russ Powers wrote:
> Michael Holland wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Russ Powers wrote:
> > export LC_TIME=en_AU
> Where exactly are you putting that line?

Bumper sticker?

But back to business...that line is specifically a POSIX shell command.
Its purpose is to set an `environment variable'. It is likely that
Thunderbird simply uses your 'locale' environment settings to determine
the appropriate date/time format. You can instead test the LC_TIME
variable transiently at a shell prompt:

% env LC_TIME=en_AU thunderbird

If this work and you want it to "stick", you need to tell us how you
normally invoke Thunderbird. If via the shell, you'll need to stick the
'export' line into one of your "rc files". If you are invoking it from a
GUI windowing environment, you'll need to edit the "properties" of
whatever "shortcut" is invoking Thunderbird. If you are happy to set the
LC_TIME (or LANG or LOCALE) variables for your *entire* desktop (and why
wouldn't you be?), then you should add the export line to your rc file.