Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

[Tim]

On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 14:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> What I found with Thunderbird 72.0a1 was that in order to get
> Thunderbird to display times in 24 hour format, I had to go into
> Gnome Settings->Details->Date&Time (where I already had the time
> format specified as 24-hour) and turn off the Automatic Date & Time
> setting. Having done this Thunderbird immediately displayed times in
> 24-hour format. The disadvantage with doing this is I will
> potentially lose the automatic catering of Leap Seconds.

You'll lose more than that.  You'll lose automatic correction of your
time, all year round.  Computers don't keep time very well, and need
tweaking with the real time periodically.  There's a reason that NTP,
and the like, do it all day long.