Locale

[Neil Winchurst]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:44:47 -0700
kk <karlok at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 'locale' shows the environment variables set in /etc/environment.  The 
> 'system settings' dialogue doesn't change these.  My guess, and it's 
> only a guess, is that the 'system settings' only apply to KDE apps.  In 
> order to get thunderbird to display dates the way I wanted, I had to set 
> LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 in /etc/environment.
> 
Thanks. I changed the setting to lang=en_GB.utf-8 and at last
Thunderbird shows the dates how I want them. I didn't need to add
LC_TIME

Neil Winchurst