[plug] Thunderbird date format

[Russ Powers]

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <41591B50.3070903 at powerstech.com>
>on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:05:36PM +0800, Russ Powers wrote:
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>>Michael Holland wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Russ Powers wrote:
>>>export LC_TIME=en_AU
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>>Where exactly are you putting that line?
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>Bumper sticker?
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>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:
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>% env LC_TIME=en_AU thunderbird
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One thing I just noticed, when I start thunderbird from the command line 
I get a warning:

(process:1150): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

Maybe that's my problem?



>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.
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