Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 14:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > What I found with Thunderbird 72.0a1 was that in order to get > Thunderbird to display times in 24 hour format, I had to go into > Gnome Settings->Details->Date&Time (where I already had the time > format specified as 24-hour) and turn off

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/19 12:18, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 11/21/19 7:20 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi Bob, I could be wrong but from the cat ~/.bashrc you have shown here, the export command isn't there. regards, Steve . Yes, you are correct, I botched that ... I confused ~/.bashrc and /home.bobg/.bashrc

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-11-21 20:41, Ed Greshko wrote: Advanced--->Date and Time Formatting Regional settings locale: und . I reset Preferences >   Advanced >  Regional  ,...   :und and the 24 hour time reappeared. Something caused that to change, an update, or something else I did? I dunno, but now I kno

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-11-16 04:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/15/19 7:27 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird 62.2.0 nd/or >> 62.2.2. >> >> Presently I have created /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: >> >> /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: >> #!/bin/sh >> LC_TIME=C >> export LC

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-11-22 09:18, Bob Goodwin wrote: > However after rebooting the computer Thunderbird time is still displayed in > the 12 hour AM/PM format on this > f-31 computer. FWIW, I'm just "testing" at the moment. I edited /usr/bin/thunderbird to add at the very beginning export LC_TIME=C I then

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/21/19 7:20 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi Bob, I could be wrong but from the cat ~/.bashrc you have shown here, the export command isn't there. regards, Steve . Yes, you are correct, I botched that ... I confused ~/.bashrc and /home.bobg/.bashrc After correcting that it is: [bobg@Wo

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/19 08:12, Bob Goodwin wrote: . I did this the other day and it worked initially but quit and the list of messages is in 12 hour time again. A simple solution that worked for me with Thunderbird 68.1.1 on Fedora 30 (X86_64): to ~/.bashrc add the line export LC_TIME="C" Below is a

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
. I did this the other day and it worked initially but quit and the list of messages is in 12 hour time again. A simple solution that worked for me with Thunderbird 68.1.1 on Fedora 30 (X86_64): to ~/.bashrc add the line export LC_TIME="C" Below is a copy of .bashrc with added line at the

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/11/19 12:34, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/11/19 12:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/11/19 01:22, Bob Goodwin wrote: Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit : It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced" . Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use AM/PM

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/11/19 12:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/11/19 01:22, Bob Goodwin wrote: Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit : It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced" . Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use AM/PM 12 hours? French does 24 hour time howeve

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/19 01:22, Bob Goodwin wrote: Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit : It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced" . Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use AM/PM 12 hours? French does 24 hour time however I don't know if it will let me use an E

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 06:31 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > 24 hour time seems like sucb a basic need, always wondered why it > wasn''t included as an option from the beginning with the earliest > computers? There must be some insurmountable difficulty in adding > that as an option. Going from what

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-11-16 13:01, Joe Zeff wrote: You know, Mozilla maintains a help forum for Thunderbird.  You might find it best to ask there. ___ > You are probably right. I generaly don't bother with forums since they often seem like the blind misleadin

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-11-16 11:25, Stephen Perkins wrote: A simple solution that worked for me with Thunderbird 68.1.1 on Fedora 30 (X86_64): to ~/.bashrc add the line export LC_TIME="C" log out and back in and Thunderbird shows 24-hour format. HTH Stephen . Yes that works! I had to reset time back

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Wells, Roger K. via users
On 11/16/19 11:27 AM, Stephen Perkins wrote: < Well that's another failed attempt at fixing my problem, I am not comfortable in French although it does work for me, it changes the theme in places to a blavk on white < display that I need a magnifier to read? I also need an English spell check

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/16/2019 04:31 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: It appears Thunderbird 68.2.2 does not have "Tools > Options." I don't see Options anywhere? So I will work my way through the remaining suggestions ... You know, Mozilla maintains a help forum for Thunderbird. You might find it best to ask there.

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Stephen Perkins
< Well that's another failed attempt at fixing my problem, I am not comfortable in French although it does work for me, it changes the theme in places to a blavk on white < display that I need a magnifier to read? I also need an English spell checker running, *am a lousy typist*. I'll just deal

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/16/19 9:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit : It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced" . Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use AM/PM 12 hours? French does 24 hour time however I don't know if it will let me use an

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
Le 16/11/2019 à 07:13, Ed Greshko a écrit : It has moved to "Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced" . Well that works, but to my surprise English UK seems to still use AM/PM 12 hours? French does 24 hour time however I don't know if it will let me use an Englsh spell checker, it seems it should ?

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/16/19 7:31 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > On 11/16/19 5:47 AM, Tim via users wrote: >> On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 10:27 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird >>> 62.2.0 nd/or 62.2.2. >> I found this advice on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/16/19 5:47 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 10:27 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird 62.2.0 nd/or 62.2.2. I found this advice on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1228724 An option under "Tools > Options, Adv

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 10:27 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird > 62.2.0 nd/or 62.2.2. I found this advice on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1228724 An option under "Tools > Options, Advanced, General" now allows to select wheth

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-15 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/15/19 3:07 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I remember a thread about this a while back and I don't think there was any solution found.  I even tried building my own locale file and that didn't seem to work. __ . Yes that was probably me, I feel like I've been through this several times befo

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/15/19 7:27 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird 62.2.0 nd/or 62.2.2. Presently I have created /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: #!/bin/sh LC_TIME=C export LC_TIME /usr/bin/thunderbird and rebooted but the AM/PM time is st

24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-15 Thread Bob Goodwin
How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird 62.2.0 nd/or 62.2.2. Presently I have created /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: /usr/bin/thunderbird24h: #!/bin/sh LC_TIME=C export LC_TIME /usr/bin/thunderbird and rebooted but the AM/PM time is still being used. Have I nissed something