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johannes
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Thunderbird gracefully ignores my computers date/time format settings. I can figure out the time but is this 10. August or 8. Oktober?

For completness I've added the settings in Fedora Gnome-Desktop

Thunderbird gracefully ignores my computers date/time format settings. I can figure out the time but is this 10. August or 8. Oktober? For completness I've added the settings in Fedora Gnome-Desktop
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This is correct: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-thunderbird

There is a wanted to change the date format I did as suggested and changed the OS language. This also did change the menus in Thunderbird. Finally I was able to set the date settings in Instellingen > Algemeen > scoll down > click Configuration-editor and add intl.date_time.pattern_override.date_short as string and specify the proper date format

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johannes
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Btw I look at this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-thunderbird#w_choose-thunderbird-date-and-time-formats-defined-by-operating-system-or-application-locale

But in Thunderbird there is no Preferences in the hamburger menu

Mad Maks
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do you use the English version of Thunderbird or the dutch? there is normally a preference menu item in the hamburgermenu. In the latest versions is the menu Language & Appearance not available anymore but i believe that changing the setting in the about:config still works

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This is correct: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-thunderbird

There is a wanted to change the date format I did as suggested and changed the OS language. This also did change the menus in Thunderbird. Finally I was able to set the date settings in Instellingen > Algemeen > scoll down > click Configuration-editor and add intl.date_time.pattern_override.date_short as string and specify the proper date format