environment locale date, time settings ignored in x86-64

[s_raiguel]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Under Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic 64-bit, Thunderbird version 2.0.0.21 (20090409) x86_64 will not assume date and time settings specified the Environment file. With the 32-bit version, to have American English as the default language, but European-style date and time, it was sufficient to add the lines :
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
to the /etc/Environment file. This no longer seems to work with Thunderbird x86_64, which continues to display times and dates of messages in the US format.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[afx (afxmac)]

Not sure whether this is really a Thunderbird problem:

$ 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=en_US.utf8
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
$ export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
$ export LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8
$ 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=en_US.utf8

Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi S. Raiguel,
Thank you for having taken the time to report a problem with Ubuntu and Thunderbird. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

You made this bug report in 2009 regarding Thunderbird and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?

Or, if it still might be a problem, it would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 390259

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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