How to set a different date (non-US) format?

[SlySven]

Is there a setting to change the format of the date in the mail message listing (and elsewhere) so that it is something a bit more sensible to non-US users?

I couldn't see a knob for it in the "Preferences".

Also - I was going to also ask if it is possible to install other dictionaries (I'm after an en_GB one) to use instead of the built-in(?) en_US one? There is a link displayed on the relevant tab in the preferences

but all that does is open an empty page:

This is the epyrus-2.1.3.freebsd13.2-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz build installed on a FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p2 system.

However, since I installed (well unzipped) the build in /opt I was able to get all the dictionaries I wanted by replacing the original /opt/epyrus/dictionaries directory with a symbolic link to the hunspell dictionaries I'd already installed for other purposes, by, in the /opt/epyrus directory:

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sudo mv dictionaries/ dictionaries_orig
sudo ln -s -i /usr/local/share/hunspell/ dictionaries

Then after a restart of Epyrus things were just fine:

[Moonchild]

Epyrus picks this up from your system's regional settings.
e.g. I have my regional "short date" format set to what is standard in Sweden (ISO yyyy-mm-dd) and Epyrus dutifully displays that in my message lists.

Go into Windows Settings -> Time & language -> Region to change it

[ag0044]

I had a vague recollection that there was an Thunderbird extension that may have done exactly what the OP wants.

After a bit of digging, I found this, somewhat aged (2019), extension:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... dl-popular

Whether it will function with Epyrus is another matter.

Edit: Forget it, as it's "not compatible with Epyrus 2.1.3".

[SlySven]

Epyrus picks this up from your system's regional settings.
e.g. I have my regional "short date" format set to what is standard in Sweden (ISO yyyy-mm-dd) and Epyrus dutifully displays that in my message lists.

Go into Windows Settings -> Time & language -> Region to change it

Slight issue with that - if you noticed I did mention I was talking about a FreeBSD build...

My (KDE Plasma) DE does have the right (for me) settings - I'll check to see how it looks the next time I boot GNU/Linux and if that works it might give me some pointers, at a guess I suspect it is defaulting to some hard-coded USA settings because it can't see them in the place it expects:

[Moonchild]

Sorry, I didn't notice that it was FreeBSD, I just glanced at the scaled-down screenshots and it looked like Windows with a dark theme so i assumed it was Windows. My mistake.
I don't know on FreeBSD but assumed it's similarly linked to the system format; if not then I don't know how to help you.

[SlySven]

Okay, I've just done a GNU/Linux install on another PC and Epyrus is showing the appropriate date format on that OS with the same (AFAICT) DE.

So it seems likely that how the Linux build gets that information (from the KDE DE) is not working for FreeBSD.

[Veit Kannegieser]

So it seems likely that how the Linux build gets that information (from the KDE DE) is not working for FreeBSD.

There it usually a thing connected with the C library.
I regularly patch /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE for things like d_fmt from "%d.%m.%Y" to "%Y-%m-%d" and run locale-gen.