Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Joe Hart wrote:
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> Wackojacko wrote:
> > Michael M. wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> > >
> > > > Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but
> > > > really mean the 4th of December.  Still, your system should know the
> > > > real day, and really so should you.  Therefore, I am not asking for a
> > > > fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system.
> > >
> > > Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.
> > >
> > > OTOH, if it's April 12th ...
> > >
> > > ... it's probably raining.
> > >
> > > I'm not seeing the difference! :-)
> > Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these.
> >
> > aptitude search icedove-locale
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Wackojacko
>
> Ah, but if I do that, then the language of my menus and everything else
> changes.  The LC_TIME variable on the other hand just fixes the dates to
> display like they should, and leaves the rest of the things alone.  A
> perfect solution to my date problem.  Florian's advice went straight
> into my button, and now when I click on IceDove, it looks fine.  I would
> imagine Ken has also implemented this, or he's still evaluating other MUAs.
>
> As for the weather in Seattle, I can relate to that.  It rains a lot
> here too.  That's good for the flowers that we export. ;)
>
> Joe
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Joe

Thanks for the reminder, and for archives sake.  I had the same problem 
and AFAICR it was *not* the icedove-locale package that made it work.

Google suggested putting

#Locale
LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO-8859-15
export LC_TIME

in ~.bash_profile and it was this that made the time display correctly.

Of course this works across all user apps, which is what I wanted, so YMMV.

HTH

Wackojacko