On 2018-08-08 17:46, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Am 08.08.18 um 17:40 schrieb Anton Aylward:
On 2018-08-08 6:59 a.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
I've never set that in my outermost shell. In fact the outermost shell that starts Thunderbird (as well as Firefox and others) gives: anton@main:~> date Wed Aug 8 11:34:30 EDT 2018
The command "date" somewhat ignores the locale "LC_TIME" variable: cer@Telcontar:~> date Wed Aug 8 19:12:15 CEST 2018 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 cer@Telcontar:~> espaniol date mié ago 8 19:12:21 CEST 2018 LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> ingles date Wed Aug 8 19:13:12 CEST 2018 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" cer@Telcontar:~> So, again, (Anton) what is your locale? Type "locale" in the terminal that calls Thunderbird. For example, if I change to Spanish locale: LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" Then the header I get is "On 07/08/18 16:19, Anton Aylward wrote:" As you see, the language does not change, but the format of the date string does. Watch carefully, it is day/month/year, not the USA format. ...
and I'd be happy with that. So something is wrong inside T'Bird.
just for my understanding: What is the setting for you under Preferences->Advanced->date/clock format?
I don't see that setting in Thunderbird, so it must be KDE or gnome :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)