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  Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> - 2018-10-02 21:00 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-02 21:10 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> - 2018-10-02 21:20 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2018-10-03 10:30 +0200

#200833 — Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

On 2018-08-20 3:27 p.m., Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> On 20.08.18 11:57, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-08-20, Stefan Pietsch <s.pietsch@e2security.de> wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> after the upgrade from Thunderbird 52.9.1 to 60.0 (Debian sid) it seems
>>> for me that the environment variable LC_TIME is ignored.
>>>
>>> I used the following command to set 24h time format in Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> $ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 thunderbird

This command doesn't work for me.

>>> With Thunderbird 60 setting the LC_TIME or LANG variables will not help.
>>> Can someone confirm this?
>>
>> I can't confirm anything but this bug report
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907
>>
>> looks both pertinent, and, after a cursory read (recent posts re 60 toward the
>> bottom), discouraging concerning your plight (at least for the moment).
> 
> Thanks for the hint to that bug id.
> 
> I had to set the "Date and Time Formatting" option (exists since TB
> version 56) in the Advanced Preferences AND the variable LC_TIME when
> starting Thunderbird to get it working.

> Regards,
> Stefan

The date and time option for me has two choices:

	Application locale: English (United States)
	Regional settings locale: English (Canada)

The result for me is the same for both. It is the ISO 8601 format for 
the date, but for time the format is 12 hour plus AM/PM.

How did you manage to the ISO 8601 time format be setting the LV_TIME 
format?

Regards, Ken

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#200834

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> > > > $ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 thunderbird
> 
> This command doesn't work for me.

You have to generate the locales that you want to use.

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Check it by running "locale -a" to see which locales are available on
your system.

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#200835

On 2018-10-02 3:07 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
>>>>> $ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 thunderbird
>>
>> This command doesn't work for me.
> 
> You have to generate the locales that you want to use.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure locales >
> Check it by running "locale -a" to see which locales are available on
> your system.

I had long since already done that.  Among the available locales was and 
still is en_DK.utf8.

Ken

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#200844

The locale en_GB.utf8 uses 24 h time format.

Regards,
jvp.

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