AM/PM in Thunderbird -

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On 02/25/14 06:53, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 02/24/14 19:31, g wrote:
>> On 02/24/14 19:13, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 02/24/14 20:43, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For a long time I have been doing:
>>>>
>>>> /etc/locale.conf    change:    LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>
>>>> LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>>>
>>>> To make Thunderbird list messages with 24 hour time.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone suggest a better way to accomplish this?
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>
>>> Add
>>>
>>> export LC_TIME=C
>>>
>>> to your .bashrc
>>>
>>> Of course you'll need to logout/login for this to take effect
>>> globally in your GUI
>>
>> instead of taking the time needed to logout and login to desktop, i
>> find that opening a terminal and entering;
>>
>> . ~/.bashrc
>>
>> is a faster way to effect new .bashrc entries.
>
> That's an effective way to make the change active in the current
> shell but that does not make the change effective in your current
 > GUI session.
>
> It's good practice to try that before you log off just in case
> you've buggered up your .bashrc bad enough that it won't let you
 > log on again after you log off.

did you try it or are you just guessing? :-)

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