Hullo All,
I would like to configure Sunbird to display dates in the dd/mm/yyyy format, but it seems that isn't directly possible.
I have seen advice that the date format depends upon locale settings, which are as follows;

[terry@phenom ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I would prefer settings which reflect Australian conventions, if these are available.

Any advice please, on what/how to change.

Cheers,
Terry

You should change LC_TIME to en_AU.UTF-8. I guess Fedora has the tools to do this from control panel.
Or you can put the following in your .bashrc or .profile
You could also change LANG and LC_MESSAGES if you want.

Regards

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Greatcoats Off, problem solved.

The language setting can be set/altered by selecting System>Administration>Language, and in my case the problem was solved by selecting English(Australia).
As a result of this change Sunbird is now using the correct (for me) date format.

Cheers,
Terry

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Thanks for your response.
Your help was posted about the same time as I posted my own solution, so didn't see it until some time later.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Terry

Now that System->Administration->Language is gone, where, in Gnome Gui, is the change locale/language setting in Fedora 14?
I can't believe everybody non-American is editing the locale via bash
manually. I must have missed something.

You probably need to install system-config-language.

Jim

Hullo goanna300,

On F13 and F14 you can change the language at the login screen. On the icon bar (lower bar) your chosen language should be displayed, and there is access to a menu to change that.
It has worked here.

Cheers,
Terry

Thanks Terry
I knew I'd have missed something.
I'm wondering just how obvious it is!
I'll have to wait until I get back to my PC from out bush.
Steve

Hi Terry,(1,000 km later...)
No, My fresh, Fedora 14 64-bit installation has no language options at login; only the login dialogue, Universal Access Preferences and Shutdown Options.
After login, there is no language icon/abbreviation (eg En_US) on the status bar or anywhere else.
Are you talking about some other screen? eg pre-login options "press any key..."

Just a reminder: I *do* understand the other ways of changing locale. It's just that I believe it should be somewhere easier, if possible during installation, but also accessible via Gnome. My installation choices had no effect on language.

Hullo goanna300,

On my F14 system, at the login dialog box, when I click on my username, language and keyboard settings then appear on the lower bar (I normally call that the icon bar, but that's probably only RISCOS terminology...it probably has a different 'proper' name in linux), and these have menus to allow a change. My F13 system was the same. I assume that each user can have their own settings and hence these only appear when the username is selected in the login dialog box.
If this is unique to my F14 system, then I'm blowed if I know what I have done to enable this as it was a clean install.

Cheers,
Terry

Well, I've managed to activate the login screen you describe. By sheer chance, I toggled the Num Lock key while the login screen was displaying, and noticed the extra icons appear on the task bar!

Changed the language to my own, and (let's test it), "flavor" appears as typed in Chromium but , "flavour" has a squiggly red line still. Bugger.

Also, my new eMachines Notebook doesn't let me set Num Lock to on. Double bugger.
What do I expect for $499?

Steve