Thunderbird on my desktop is showing me the date in day/month/year format. I understand this is more rational than the way we do it in the States but I would like to revert it back to freedom notation.
I tried changing the settings available to me in the menus and they make no difference. I'm running the same distro/versions of everything on all my computers and this is the only one doing this. I deleted the entire Thunderbird profile and copied it from one of the correctly formatted computers, same result.
What the frick??
@swaggboi is an OS setting overriding Thunderbird?
@sabreW4K3 You are correct. I had set my system locale to something like `en_GB.UTF-8` which fixed my system time to be 24 hour instead of AM/PM. Unsetting that fixes Thunderbird but now my system is back to AM/PM. Two takeaways:
1. The Thunderbird setting to use an application-specific locale doesn't work
2. I _really_ fucking hate computers
@swaggboi @sabreW4K3
I've found Thunderbird to be honoring LC_ environment variables even on musl systems where it's otherwise meaningless.
You can even have things like LANG=en_US.UTF-8 , but LC_DATE=en_GB.UTF-8 to have US locale, but dates in "more straightforward" (😏) format — I believe that's what I have on most of my systems, but you can try the opposite of it: British locale, but US date format.
Oh, yes and LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 to not have AM/PM of course!
