That's not a very good approach... I'm using the en_US locale, but always customize my clock output to display in 24hr format. KDE allows me to do this. I don't really like how Thunderbird thinks it's smarter than I.
Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD bobgoodwin@wildblue.net wrote:
Does anyone know how to get Thunderbird to use 24 hour time when listing email "Date?"
I use a large font and need the space that the stupid AM/PM takes for useful [to me] information!
I know this is may not be a Fedora question but ...
It depends on your locale settings how applications from Mozilla.org (Firefox, Thunderbird etc.) display the date. If you prefer ISO-8601 format, use the special locale named "en_DK". For example, UTF-8 users may set "LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8; export LC_TIME" before running Mozilla.org applications. If you only want to change date format in Thunderbird I'd recommend a shell alias or a small wrapper script.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format for further details. (You'll find a lot of cool tips & tricks in MozillaZine.)
Hope it helps ... Andreas