304631 - Thunderbird and Mozilla override time display preferences in Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[John F. Morse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Thunderbird and Mozilla newer than: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Newer versions of Mozilla and Thunderbird will not display nor use 24-hour clock
time. A.M. and P.M. is unsatisfactory. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. AM/PM appears in the message list window.
2.
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Actual Results:  
Cannot get Mozilla/Thunderbirt to recognize the system time settings on Debian,
Fedora Core 3 or Linspire.

Expected Results:  
It should recognize and display the system settings, or have an option to choose
the preferred time display.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Thunderbird/mozilla will use the format specified by the LC_TIME variable.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM per previous comment