[ILUG] how to set locale globally on Ubuntu system?

[John Kinsella]

Hi.
It's not a big deal but it would be nice to have European/UK/Irish 
locale so that dates (in thunderbird mail client in particular) are 
dd/mm/yyyy rathe rthan the us mm/dd/yyyy.

I could bodge up a wrapper with

#!/bin/sh
  export LC_TIME=en_GB # or whatever you want
  <FullPathToYourOriginalThunderbirdCommand>/thunderbird $*

(from mozillazine)

but surely better to have *right* locale which should be: en_IE.utf8 
defined globally.

Present locale is en_US.UTF-8

Just putting export LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 in my .bashrc presumably wont 
affect thunderbird so how do I set LC_TIME globally?

Thanks,

John
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