Bug#958433: thunderbird: wrong date format
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907 On 2020-04-22 08:56, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > wuuuh, mostly one decade of Thunderbird ESR cycling skipped. :) That's Debian for the enterprise! > So far I see you want to use en_DK, I wasn't aware until now that this > locale even exists. Note, that en_DK.UTF-8 is not a real Danish locale. It is just English plus sane date format, a kind of joke. Whatever locale is used, I just like to have two settings: 1. English as language 2. International standard date and time format Meanwhile, I found the matching upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1426907 28 months of discussion without any solution - I feel like home! Looks like this will get solved eventually, as part of porting thunderbird to Rust. If somebody knows a workaround or hot fix, I'm all ear!
Bug#958433: thunderbird: wrong date format
Hi Martin,
Am 22.04.20 um 01:52 schrieb Martin:
> after upgrading thunderbird from 52.9.1-1~deb9u1 to
> 68.7.0-1~deb10u1,
wuuuh, mostly one decade of Thunderbird ESR cycling skipped. :)
> the date format broke, both in the list view
> and in the first line of a reply ("On 2020-04-21, sb. wrote:").
> Format used to be ISO-8601 -mm-dd and now it is dd/mm/.
> I played with the locales, esp. LC_TIME, but without success.
So far I see you want to use en_DK, I wasn't aware until now that this
locale even exists.
I've no deeper knowledge about this locale, a quick research otoh says
to me that this date format you now seeing is the correct one.
http://www.localeplanet.com/icu/en-DK/index.html
See especially Dates - Date.3
The glibc does ISO 8601 that's correct. But I suspect that Thunderbird
is using more the common local standard.
> Note, that under Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced, below
> "Date and Time Formatting", I can choose between
> English (United States) and English (Denmark). However, the
> latter is already selected. Btw. I have no idea where the first
> one comes from, because I did not configure en_US*.
I'm quite sure this comes from your global locales setup. But shouldn't
matter in the end as long Thunderbird is picking up the correct locale
to use for your session.
I mainly using only de_DE.UTF8 as default for my systems so I don't have
to modify here anything.
> If this is really a bug, I would also be happy about any hack or
> workaround, at least for the replies.
Currently I can't say if this is a bug, I'm unable to readjust your
setting to play around. Maybe Jonas can help out here a bit because he
is a Danish native speaking person. :)
--
Regards
Carsten Schoenert
Bug#958433: thunderbird: wrong date format
Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:68.7.0-1~deb10u1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n upstream
Hi Carsten,
after upgrading thunderbird from 52.9.1-1~deb9u1 to
68.7.0-1~deb10u1, the date format broke, both in the list view
and in the first line of a reply ("On 2020-04-21, sb. wrote:").
Format used to be ISO-8601 -mm-dd and now it is dd/mm/.
I played with the locales, esp. LC_TIME, but without success.
Note, that under Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced, below
"Date and Time Formatting", I can choose between
English (United States) and English (Denmark). However, the
latter is already selected. Btw. I have no idea where the first
one comes from, because I did not configure en_US*.
If this is really a bug, I would also be happy about any hack or
workaround, at least for the replies.
Many thanks for your awesome work on thunderbird packaging!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_DK.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_DK.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.6.1
ii fontconfig2.13.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4
ii libevent-2.1-62.1.8-stable-4
ii libffi6 3.2.1-9
ii libfontconfig12.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3+deb10u1
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii libgtk-3-03.24.5-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii libpango-1.0-01.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libstdc++68.3.0-6
ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3+deb10u1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.13.1-2
ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt61:1.1.5-1+b3
ii psmisc23.2-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
ii zlib1g1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-en-gb [hunspell-dictionary] 1:6.2.0-1
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2018.04.16-1
ii lightning 1:68.7.0-1~deb10u1
Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 2.13.2-10
ii fonts-lyx 2.3.2-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3
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