506525 - date format incorrect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Amnon Yekutieli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090714 SUSE/3.5.1-1.1 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 SUSE/3.0b3-6.1 Thunderbird/3.0b3

1. The date display format is incorrect. My system is set to 
  language = EN_DK
and yet Thunderbird ignores this setting. 
Instead of the expected  
  2009-07-26 15:02
I see
  07/26/2009 03:02 PM.

2. My system in SUSE 11.1.

3. I had the same problem on this computer (running same OS) with Thunderbird 2.0.

3. On my other computer, running SUSE 10.3, this problem does not occur, 
  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Put something like

  export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8

into your ~/.bashrc file (or ~/.login if you are using tcsh or csh).
LC_ALL either shouldn't be set or has to be equal to LC_TIME.

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

Amnon Yekutieli wrote by e-mail:
> Thanks for the tip!

You are welcome, but please reply to the bug report only rather than personal e-mail though the addresses are listed.

I assume that it did the trick, thus resolving "works for me". Ideally, KDE or Gnome would pass down the system setting in the environment to the application it launches, apparently that's not the case.

-> WFM