927032 - On Mac OS X, dates are not displayed using system preferences

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Schultz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258

Steps to reproduce:

Running 24.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.8.5.

My locale is en-US but I have my time preferences set to a 24-hour clock. tb displays times with a 12-hour clock and AM/PM indicator. Is that something tb can sniff and adjust?


Actual results:

12-hour clock


Expected results:

24-hour clock

Comment 1

[Christopher Schultz]

So, to be clear, I'm just talking about the date/time displayed in the message-list panel (e.g. list of messages, including "Date" field (which includes the time as well).

Comment 2

[Christopher Schultz]

I should also probably mention the values of the following likely-relevant config settings:

general.useragent.locale;en-US
intl.locale.matchOS;false
extensions.ui.locale.hidden;true

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Hi Christopher, 

At first I thought this would give us a solution: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format but it is either out of date or the mail.ui.display.dateformat.default config option doesn't exist on MacOS. 

I looked around and found an addon that appears to do what you want: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/super-date-format/

Can you give those both a try? This could be an enhancement request bug if there isn't currently a way to change date format.

Comment 4

[Christopher Schultz]

The only config preferences I can see with "mail.ui" in them are:

mail.ui.folderpane.version;1 (default)
mail.ui-rdf.version;5 (this is "user set" though I don't know what affects this value)

Adding those values looks like they wouldn't do anything, because they don't affect the time format (which is okay, other than the AM/PM indicators).

It's not so important to me that I'm willing to install an add-on just to do it. I just figured that tb would use my OS's date-format preferences instead of just using the locale and using "standard" rules for that locale.

I'd like to leave this as an enhancement request, though.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't see this as significantly improving TB's capability on Mac, so removing the meta.