Re: How to change mail/thunderbird date format?

[Jonathan Groll <lists%groll.co.za@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:33:10AM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> I just installed mail/thunderbird from the stable pkgsrc branch.
> It shows dates as 08/18/08 which I find quite annoying; I want either
> 2008-08-18 or 18-08-2008 (preferably the latter).
>
> Googling suggests that one should be able to set LC_TIME=en_GB or some
> other country, which thunderbird is supposed to obey. See for instance
> http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ThunderbirdAndDateFormat or
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format#Configuring_the_date.2Ftime_system_settings_on_your_computer
>  .
>
> Unfortunately this does not seem to work.
>
> I tried all kinds of variants including the character set as
> en_GB.ISO8859-1 or en_GB.ISO88591 or en_GB.iso-8859-1.
>
> Does anyone have some other idea?
Install the "ConfigDate" add-on.

Cheers,
Jonathan.