Re: AM/PM in Thunderbird -

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On 02/25/14 03:04, g wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/25/14 06:53, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> On 02/24/14 19:31, g wrote:
>>> On 02/24/14 19:13, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> On 02/24/14 20:43, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For a long time I have been doing:
>>>>>
>>>>> /etc/locale.conf    change:    LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>>
>>>>> LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>>>>
>>>>> To make Thunderbird list messages with 24 hour time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone suggest a better way to accomplish this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> Add
>>>>
>>>> export LC_TIME=C
>>>>
>>>> to your .bashrc
>>>>
>>>> Of course you'll need to logout/login for this to take effect
>>>> globally in your GUI
>>>
>>> instead of taking the time needed to logout and login to desktop, i
>>> find that opening a terminal and entering;
>>>
>>> . ~/.bashrc
>>>
>>> is a faster way to effect new .bashrc entries.
>>
>> That's an effective way to make the change active in the current
>> shell but that does not make the change effective in your current
>> GUI session.
>>
>> It's good practice to try that before you log off just in case
>> you've buggered up your .bashrc bad enough that it won't let you
>> log on again after you log off.
> 
> did you try it or are you just guessing? :-)
> 

No guessing is required.  Your current GUI is running in the environment
it inherited from it's parent shell when it was started.  Changes to
.bashrc are not retroactive.  Children can not alter the parent environment.

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