How to change date and time format in Thunderbird

gal...@gmail.com

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Aug 15, 2019, 12:25:10 PM8/15/19

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I've installed thunderbird today and all is fine except that dates are shown in US format: MM/DD/YY. How can I change this to UK format: DD/MM/YY?

I googled and found that thunderbird gets its setting from the OS.

Thank you.

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Aug 15, 2019, 2:11:56 PM8/15/19

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<gal...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 15. Aug. 2019, 18:25:

I've installed thunderbird today and all is fine except that dates are shown in US format: MM/DD/YY. How can I change this to UK format: DD/MM/YY?

I googled and found that thunderbird gets its setting from the OS.

Maybe this plugin helps:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/nl/thunderbird/addon/quick-locale-switcher/

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Sven Semmler

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Sep 9, 2019, 5:02:46 PM9/9/19

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On 8/15/19 11:25 AM, gal...@gmail.com wrote:
> I googled and found that thunderbird gets its setting from the OS.

You want to google for the command line commands: locale and localectl
as well as /etc/locale.conf

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Andrew David Wong

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Sep 10, 2019, 12:14:04 AM9/10/19

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This is a known bug in Thuderbird:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907

I managed to get ISO dates by following the workaround in this comment:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907#c144

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