On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Hasler wrote: > > Ken writes: > >> Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? > > > > man locale > > locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today > is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which tells me that > because I use a US English version of IceDove, it uses it's own settings.
[...] Does it make a difference if you start icedove by clicking on an icon or from a terminal? If you define your LANG and LC_* in bashrc then these settings are not necessarily used for things that don't involve bash. I use LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 and icedove displays the dates nicely in British style ("24/04/07 19:37"). You can also switch every time you call icedove, e.g. $ LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 icedove results in "04/24/2007 07:37 PM" or $ LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 icedove results in "24.04.2007 19:37" etc. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]