[arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

[matthew dyer]

Hi. Problem fixed. I added lc time ends to locale.conf and now all is well.




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> On Sep 14, 2019, at 8:39 PM, Dan Sommers <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/14/19 11:19 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> >> when I look at an email such as in thunderbird, the time and date are
> >> given 24 hour format for example, 2019/14/09 11:00 rather than the
> >> u.s format I am used to.
> 
> > What is the output of the locale(1) command?
> > Also, this page may be of help.
> > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Date_Format#Configuring_the_date.2Ftime_system_settings_on_your_computer
> 
> According to RFC 2822, the time of day in an email message is always in
> 24-hour format.  Changing your system settings can't and won't (and IMO
> shouldn't) change that.  If anything, I think that you'll have to change
> something in Thunderbird.
> 
> Dan