Re: [tlug] So-called "locale" problems in Thunderbird

["Schwartz, Fernando G. | @SCA" <fgs@example.com>]

On 12/30/20 7:29 PM, Brian Chandler wrote:
> I am trying to get a Ubuntu system usable, for which I need the 
> mailreader to show dates in ISO order (2020-12-31 etc). As always I am 
> enmired in a Kafkaesque fog of confusion (theirs, not mine) between 
> languages, places, and date formats. I understand that I cannot expect 
> to specify a date format, but have to do some "locale" nonsense; my 
> general strategy, which seems to be quite standard, actually, is to 
> pretend to be somewhere called "English-in-Denmark". This gets most 
> things OK; it tends to mean that spreadsheets use the continental 
> "decimal comma", but I can live with that. I have a copy of Thunderbird 
> working on another computer, but it's about 12 versions older, so there 
> is no correlation that I can find between the "Preference" settings on 
> the two systems.

... I'm advocating for one distro I currently use, mostly. Had you " 
Manjaro ", under " Manjaro Settings Manager " you'll find that specific 
applet " Locale Settings " which manages this issue for the system.

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Settings_Manager

Cheeers! フェルナンド