How to change the format of date in thunderbird in rhel 5.8
 

Hi,

I am using rhel 5.8 64 bit. I have thunderbird 10.0.3 . I have language set to english india. LANG=en_IN.UTF-8 .I set the language through system-config-language . original it was en_US.UTF-8. it showed date in mm/dd/yy format in thunderbird. I wanted it to show in dd/mm/yy format. Since india uses this format. i though changing language to in english india will fix the problem. But now i get the date in format like 'friday 16 march 2012 03:50 PM'. So i think english_in is not good and is not mature enough. How do i fix this to get date in thunderbird to display as 16/02/2012 03:50PM.

with regards,
ashwin

Try LANG=en_UK.UTF-8

I tried system-config-language and choose Great Britain. and that solved the problem. Now i am afraid if there any side effects of this. So far so good.

Two more points that may help you.


1) You can prefix an individual command with a variable setting, to have that setting only affect that process.

2) In this case you don't need to set the overall LANG variable. It's the LC_TIME variable that controls the date format in thunderbird.

So try launching TB with the command like this:
Make sure that the desired locale is available on your system first, of course.


More on the time format in TB here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format