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I am newbie running Slackware10.2 with KDE desktop. I have long since
upgraded to "mozilla-thunderbird-1.5-i686-1jim" which I downloaded from
<linuxpackges.net>
I want to change the date format of thunderbird to the default format
that I have configured for KDE (SHORTWEEKDAY-DD-SHORTMONTH-YY). My dates
show up as Tue-07-Jun-06. Basically I get confused between date & month
so I at lest like to keep one of them in words.
I did a bit of searching & found this site
kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format
My first question is why did all the pages that I came across, referred
to this (user.js) file? I did not find any such file, but I did find
something called "prefs.js" /in/my/home/.thunderbird which seems to have
the same function.
So I added a line to the file (prefs.js) as per the instruction on
the page
but unfortunately it had no effect!! the date format remained as it was
before (06/07/2006 12:30 PM).
Then I installed this (configdate-0.3.6-tb.xpi) extension, which (as I
realized later) just automates the above mentioned process; and it also
had no effect (no surprise there I guess).
My dates (in thunderbird) keep showing as 06/07/2006 12:30 PM
I did check the /patch section for Slackware10.2 at <slackware.com> & it
had mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.7
Could it be possible that thunderbird-1.5 is not compatible with
Slackware10.2 ?? or am I doing something wrong??
Oh! I am also using a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel & my Location is KDE
is Bangladesh... could that have anything to with this all??
There is no issue with compatibility between TB and Slackware - TB obviously runs, from your description, so there isn't a compatibility issue from that point of view.
It could be that the preference you mention (mail.ui.display.dateformat.default) is not supported (or no longer supported) in TB 1.5. Have you tried it in 1.0.7 to see if it works in that?
After hours of search, I succeed to have the date format YYYY-MM-DD (also called ISO format) correctly displayed in Mozilla Thunderbird (version 1.0.2 (20060830)) with KDE (release 3.3.2) on a Debian distribution (3.1r3) on an Intel PC.
I ran into the same thing, but LC_ALL was set correctly when I checked in a console (do echo $LC_ALL in a console to see whether that's the case for you, too). So I ended up with two possible solutions:
- check [x] run in terminal in the K-Menu (nothing I liked to anticipate)
or add
- LC_ALL=<your preffered locale> &&
infront of the executable path, so for me it looked like this in the end:
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro && /usr/bin/thunderbird
Somewhat dirty, I presume, but that's the best way I could think of.
Colin (LQ.org won't let me post the URL as a link,* so google for "HOWTO: Customise Thunderbird Date Format" - first hit is our guy) has written a nice expression to see what values are possible for LC_ALL and what the date format would be on your machine.
Best regards!
* the mechanism regards smiles from their very own menu as links - how crappy is that? -___-
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