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Re: Date and time format

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On 06/23/2011 11:51 AM, faeychild wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> 
>> This morning I tried to to find out how to set the time format
>> for the Thunderbird mail client to 24-hour format. Before I
>> knew it, I was digging into 'locale', environment variables
>> with unlikely names and cryptic values, startup scripts, etc,
>> etc.
>  It is probably not set for Thunderbird specifically.
> It is more likely in "region and language".
>  If you click up "desktop settings"
> then " region and language"
> them "time and dates"
> then your time format should be HH:MM:SS
> all capitals. 
> this will usually get you a 24 clock.
> 
> I assume Thunderbird will pick it up
> 
> If you have the digital clock enabled in the task bar it should reflect 24 
> hour time
> 

The funny thing is that the task bar clock *does* have a format setting
in its preferences, which it obeys without problems. Easy! This locale
stuff is grotesque in comparison. Thunderbird's time format is
unaffected and stubbornly shows things like 12:04 AM. Quick now: Is
that just after midnight or just after noon? (Don't bother answering
that: I know. :-) )

Thanks for your comments.

Jeroen Belleman

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Date and time format Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2011-06-23 09:21 +0200
  Re: Date and time format faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2011-06-23 19:51 +1000
    Re: Date and time format Jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2011-06-23 23:47 +0200
      Re: Date and time format faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2011-06-24 09:33 +1000
      Re: Date and time format Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-06-24 11:04 -0400
  Re: Date and time format Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2011-06-23 14:04 +0200
    Re: Date and time format Jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2011-06-23 20:59 +0200
    Re: Date and time format Aleksandar_B <aleks@ndar.b> - 2011-06-25 01:54 +0200
      Re: Date and time format Feranija <feranija@net...> - 2011-06-24 18:22 -0700
        Re: Date and time format Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2011-06-28 16:38 +0200
          Re: Date and time format Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-06-28 17:11 +0100
            Re: Date and time format Jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2011-06-28 22:55 +0200

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