365868 - Thunderbird partially ignores OS date and time format from international settings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 360018

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[s.marshall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

(This may be a duplicate of bug 253883, but I wasn't sure; I think this particular issue might be Mac-specific, maybe even 10.3-specific.)

I am using Mac OS X 10.3. In System Preferences under 'International / Formats', my date format is shown as follows:

Region: United Kingdom

Dates: 
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 
2 Jan 2007
02/01/2007

Times:
00:34   16:56

Most applications follow this format or some variant of it. For example, the system clock says 'Thu 01:26'.


Thunderbird, however, displays message dates as follows:

3/1/07 8:58 pm 
(message from 3 January)

10:36 pm
(message today)

If I alter configuration using about:config I can also access the third 'full date' option, which looks like:

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 10:47 am

In all cases the time is incorrectly displayed with am/pm. However, in the first example above the date is ordered according to UK style (d/m/yy), so *something* appears to be working.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
With international settings as described, look at message date.
Actual Results:  
3/1/07 8:58 pm 

Expected Results:  
3/1/07 20:58, or 03/01/2007 20:58, or somesuch - definitely no AM/PM.

I have no extensions installed. I haven't tried to reproduce this with a clean profile or anything (not sure how to, to be honest).

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Perhaps, it is dup to bug360018. 

Comment 3

[s.marshall]

This is not quite the same as bug 360018 because in this bug, the order of the date fields (DD/MM/YYYY) is correct. It is the time field that's displayed incorrectly (am/pm). However it is probably the same root problem so I'm not going to argue with the dup marking.