Thunderbird does not respect date format

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Hi.

How to make thunderbird respect date format set on system preferences?
I use DD/MM/YYYY and I want it that way… but no… TB likes to show MM/DD/YYYY
It pisses me off. All application respects except TB and there is no (visible) way to change his mind.

Any hint would be appreciated.

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A bit of Googling found http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format
which in turn requires http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file . Mind you
I’ve not done any of this and it shows up as dd/mm/yy for me, as per my
SLED 10.2 KDE 3.5 desktop settings shrug

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thanks. will try more as initial things on that pages doesnt work.
:frowning:

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Have you submitted an enhancement request? I wouldn’t mind this
changing myself, but I’d prefer the ISO standard date format as it is
easier to understand, and universal: yyyy-mm-dd. If you are not
inclined to submit an enhancement request please post back so I can.

Good luck.

beli0135 wrote:
> thanks. will try more as initial things on that pages doesnt work.
> :frowning:
>
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I dont know how to do that excatly. Never requested anything from mozilla before.