Comments on: HOWTO: Customise Thunderbird Date Format

By: Brayan Peter

Brayan Peter — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:18:15 +0000

Hi, i think if you add a path to customize the date that would be better.

By: wwwillem

wwwillem — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:38:17 +0000

I know about en_DK, but it seems to be missing from Solaris. Will test on a Linux box to see if that’s the issue.

By: Atlasz

Atlasz — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:31:57 +0000

wwwillem, use LC_TIME=en_DK as described here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format

The solution with creating the init file works for me now

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:38:36 +0000

I had the same annoyance wwwillem. The only alternate solution I can think of is to create your own locale with your desired date format. Probably a bit OTT, but gets the job done

By: wwwillem

wwwillem — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:51:49 +0000

Good stuff!! But isn’t it weird? I would like to have my date/time in ISO standard “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss”.

So I used the little shell script to extract all date/time formats for all locales, and surprise, surprise …. none of the locales has a “yyyy-mm-dd” date format. The closest one is “yy-mm-dd” (fr_CA), but you can’t get 4 digit years. Mmm, nobody can remember Y2K?

By: George

George — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:58:45 +0000

Thanx!!!Nice work

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:26:06 +0000

Hi, I was dealing with this incorrect data format in Thunderbird as well. It was ‘hard set’ to an american format mm-dd-yyyy but I am using a dd-mm-yyyy format. I tried to apply a lot of solutions found on the internet but no luck. The only one working fine for me is here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595982

By: What is Linux?

What is Linux? — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:51:56 +0000

Thank you! I was going mad with Thunderbird ignoring KDE’s date preference. Like you, I needed 24 hour time, the proper year-month-day order, and dashes instead of slashes.