On 6/22/19 1:46 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Fedora-30 insists that I use Thunderbird 60.6.1 (64-bit), refuses to dnf downgrade it, so once again I am trying to get it to do some of the things I find most convenient, in this case use 24 hour time instead of AM/PM.
Adding "export LC_TIME=C" to .bashrc m\does not change it. I think there was an °add-On that did it for me in the past but that's one of many that shows not compatible in my Thunderbird. Can anyone tell me how to change this?
Well that was a crazy rabbit hole. I figured out how to make my own locale variant with different time display settings. But in the end, as far as I can tell, despite saying otherwise, Thunderbird appears to mostly ignore the locale formatting. I'm downloading the source code to try to find out what it's doing, but that will take a while. Even though the Thunderbird settings says to use the right locale for the time display and it loads the files, it still doesn't change how the time is displayed.
At this point, the best option appears to be running Thunderbird from the command line using: LC_TIME=en_GB thunderbird That also changes the date display, switching the month and day, but for some reason it does show 24 hour time.