734785 - Thunderbird 12/24 Hour Time on CentOS

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[wvsrk1lx]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

On my CentOS 6.2, I am running Thunderbird 10.0.1 from the official CentOS repository. I have my CentOS set to use 24 hour time. However, within Thunderbird, it continues to use 12 hour time. On the contrary when I'm using my Mac Lion 10.7.3 (I believe), the time is displayed in 24 hour time, both in the message list and 'On 09/06/2011 ti:me, Bob wrote'


Actual results:

Does not follow the system's preference of 12/24 hour time


Expected results:

Use 12/24 hour time depending on what the system has as the default

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

what is the output of "locale" ?

Comment 2

[wvsrk1lx]

[root@localhost Builds]# locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's still setup as LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" and that is the 12h format.

Comment 4

[wvsrk1lx]

Well, on the mac, the same result returns "en_US.UTF-8", so I'm not sure if that has to do with the 12/24 hour detection in Thunderbird. Changing the 12/24 hour time from right clicking the clock -> Preferences (I believe) doesn't change any of the locale.

Joe-Smiths-MacBook:~ joesmith$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We use an APIs on OS X and the environment variable isn't used.
On Linux there are no other single APIs that works everywhere due to having several different Desktops (gnome, KDE,...).

Please reopen this bug report only if changing the locale setting doesn't fix this

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

bug 379279 is an example that that shows that this is used on linux.