Date format on v. 52

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Date format on v. 52

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I'm sticking with 52 for a while. Both comps are Win7 Ult. In my older machine, TB uses the mm/dd/yyyy format, which is what I want. In the machine I just set up, it's using 24-hour format, even though I copied the profile exactly. My system's time is on 12-hour in both, but I can't find the setting for changing TB to 12-hour format.
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Re: Date format on v. 52

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See if this article is helpful -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Date_Format
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Re: Date format on v. 52

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Read the articles. I want "system's short* date format 12/31/1999 10:23 AM," but I don't know what the preference is called in about:config.
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Re: Date format on v. 52

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The preferences are listed in that article:


Preference Applies to Default value
mail.ui.display.dateformat.today Messages with today's date 0
mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek Messages with a date in the past seven days 2
mail.ui.display.dateformat.default Older messages 2
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Re: Date format on v. 52

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Thanks.
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