the empty quarter

In order to show dates as yyyy-mm-dd instead of the default (for US locale) mm/dd/yyyy I use the following script to launch Thunderbird in Ubuntu (tested with Thunderbird 3.0.4 on Lucid):


#!/bin/sh
export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
[ "$LC_ALL" != "$LC_TIME" ] && unset LC_ALL
exec thunderbird "$@"


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