Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thank you Greg for the clarification. I find your third link https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles very worth reading. Regards, Jörg Greg Wooledge wrote on 05/06/2019 14:52: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> As user of thunderbird you best set the environment vari

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your > profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command > > $ locale > > You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command $ locale You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in .bash_profile get applied. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-05, Ken Heard wrote: > > The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now > use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at > least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially > successful attempt to change the date format I di

Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-04 Thread Ken Heard
The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially successful attempt to change the date format I did the following. 1. Ran update-locales 'LC