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The date order of my emails has changed to month/day/year how do I alter it back to day/month/year ?

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Ever since the recent update my date order has changed when viewing my emails, instead of it showing day/month/year it's showing month/day/year. Can anyone tell me how I get it back to what it should be ? I'm not sure whether it went wrong on the recent Thunderbird update or the upgrade to Windows 10 which I have downloaded and am trying out, but either way it's annoying. I am using Windows 10 but I think Windows 7 is still there somewhere. Thank you.

Ever since the recent update my date order has changed when viewing my emails, instead of it showing day/month/year it's showing month/day/year. Can anyone tell me how I get it back to what it should be ? I'm not sure whether it went wrong on the recent Thunderbird update or the upgrade to Windows 10 which I have downloaded and am trying out, but either way it's annoying. I am using Windows 10 but I think Windows 7 is still there somewhere. Thank you.

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Mine did too. But either the short or long date format was wrong. Check those before you come back and tell me I am wrong.

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Thunderbird uses the date format of your computer. I think it is the short date format but it might be the long format. It has been too long since I messed with it.

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Hi Airmail

Thanks for your reply but it still doesn't solve my problem, my system date shows the correct format but my emails are still coming through month/day/year.

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Mine did too. But either the short or long date format was wrong. Check those before you come back and tell me I am wrong.

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Hi Airmail

Thanks for your reply I have now solved my date problems, I clicked the date in the bottom right hand corner of my computer which took me to system. I then clicked adjust time date settings and chose dd/mm/yyyy (or similar) and that fixed things in Thunderbird. I am using Windows 10.