Niloc Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 I am using Ubuntu 9.04. When I use Thunderbird it insists on using the US date format of Month Day year but I am used to Day,Month,Year and find the M,D,Y format very irritating! I know it can be changed but how ? I searched the Thunderbird help file but ended up more confused than ever. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 I am relatively new to Ubutu, but I believe the date format follows your Locale settings, so if you are set for British English then the date should be in that format for the OS and all appliactions See this link on the Ubuntu Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriah Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 System > Administrator > Time and date .Hope this helps. Just like thaimite said change your system settings to Day/Month/Year Thunderbird will change its date format to reflect that . I tried that in windows and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higgy88 Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 (edited) Gee Colin, you had to pick a tough one. I too ended up in the Ubuntu forums, which is where I usually end up trying to figure out how to do things like this. I found a more recent thread that directly relates to your problem. See the last post. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1...nge+date+format Good luck. Higgy edit; Actually before you start editing configuration files, what language are you using? Go to System > administration > language support and you have about a dozen different choices for English. If you aren't using Australian English, check it and see if it changes the way you want. Edited November 4, 2009 by higgy88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niloc Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Thanks Higgy88, it now works perfectly. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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