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From: Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: Date and time format
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Jeroen Belleman wrote:

> Feranija wrote:
>> On 24.06.2011 16:54, Aleksandar_B wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-06-23 14:04, Rob van der Putten wrote:
>>>> This is actually a libc thing.
>>>> man locale.
>>>> Switching from a US to a GB locale will probably get you what you
>>>> want.
>>>
>>> In regards to TB, you can create a script with:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
>>> /usr/bin/thunderbird $*
>>>
>>> and use it to start TB.
>> 
>> 
>> Or just have the variable in ~/.bashrc. No script necessary. Works well.
> 
> But the Thunderbird process is no child of any of my open shells,
> so I don't see how this would work. I suppose I could put it in
> some window manager startup script, or some such.

/etc/profile.d/...

Cheers,

Tim
-- 
Tim Watts