The date format (at least for me) is pulled from the system locale. For example:
$ LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" ./thunderbird
Displays dates in this format (US English):
11/09/2009 12:44 AM
and
$ LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" ./thunderbird
Displays dates in this format (Great Britain English):
09/11/09 00:44
(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
> Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.0.7
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (20051015)
>
> Changing LC_TIME locale does not do anything.
> I am using Gentoo Linux.
The date format (at least for me) is pulled from the system locale. For example:
$ LC_TIME= "en_US. UTF-8" ./thunderbird
Displays dates in this format (US English):
11/09/2009 12:44 AM
and "en_GB. UTF-8" ./thunderbird
$ LC_TIME=
Displays dates in this format (Great Britain English):
09/11/09 00:44
(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
> Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.0.7
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (20051015)
>
> Changing LC_TIME locale does not do anything.
> I am using Gentoo Linux.
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