Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

[Stephen Morris]

On 18/11/19 12:34, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 18/11/19 12:17, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > On 17/11/19 01:22, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> > > > It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced"
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use 
> > > AM/PM 12 hours? French does 24 hour time however I don't know if it 
> > > will let me use an Englsh spell checker, it seems it should ?
> > >
> > > If they can have all those language options why notan English 34 
> > > hourrs? /get frustrated with Thunderbird but it's the only one I've 
> > > tried that does most of what I want, however that advantage seems to 
> > > shrink wuth each "improvemed" version they produce./
> >
> > For me it didn't work. I have Thunderbird set to the Regional locale 
> > of Australia and the gnome preferences are set to 24 hour time, but 
> > Thunderbird still displayed the dates long format with 12 hour time. 
> > To get Thunderbird to show 24 hour time I had to de-activate 
> > "Automatic Date and Time" in the gnome preferences, which caused 
> > Thunderbird to display times in 24 hour format but it displayed dates 
> > in short format even though the date preferences in gnome were set to 
> > long format. In order to get the date format in Thunderbird I wanted, 
> > I had to install the addon "Configdate" which provides access to a 
> > hidden configuration setting in Thunderbird. With this addon I could 
> > set the data format on "today's mail" to time only, this weeks mail 
> > to long format and everything else to short format. In all of these 
> > options the time is displayed in the system option of 24 hours.
>
> On thing I forgot to mention in my previous thread was this is on F30 
> with Thunderbird 72.0a1.

The other thing that may be useful or may not is, Thunderbird is 
installed in /opt/thunderbird which is still owned by root, but I have 
set the acl on the thunderbird directory to give my userid rwx access to 
everything within that directory via setfacl.

regards,
Steve
> regards,
> Steve
> > regards,
> > Steve
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