To make it work edit /etc/environment (e.g. sudo emacs /etc/environment) and
add the following line to it:
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
Save the file, log out and log in again. You can check that the variable has
been successfully set by opening a terminal and typing:
echo $LC_TIME
which should return:
en_GB.UTF-8
Now start Thunderbird again and hopefully all will be well. I know it is
annoying to have to do this but maybe the bug should be better addressed by the
creators of distributions, who fail to set LC_TIME as a default in
/etc/environment.
To make it work edit /etc/environment (e.g. sudo emacs /etc/environment) and
add the following line to it:
LC_TIME= "en_GB. UTF-8"
Save the file, log out and log in again. You can check that the variable has
been successfully set by opening a terminal and typing:
echo $LC_TIME
which should return:
en_GB.UTF-8
Now start Thunderbird again and hopefully all will be well. I know it is
annoying to have to do this but maybe the bug should be better addressed by the
creators of distributions, who fail to set LC_TIME as a default in
/etc/environment.