Date column narrowing - Sunbird Lightning Calendar
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The event list displays dates using the the operating system long date format. If the day-of-week and month are fully spelled out (the default on MSWindows), the start and end columns may be very wide in some locales, such as English:
| Title | Start | End |
| Team Meeting | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:30 AM | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:30 PM |
| Appt | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:30 PM | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:30 PM |
1. Abbreviate the day-of-week and month format to reduce the horizontal space needed.
| Title | Start | End |
| Team Meeting | Wed 13 Sep 2006 9:30 AM | Wed 13 Sep 2006 2:30 PM |
| Appt | Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:30 PM | Wed 27 Sep 2006 1:30 PM |
Set your operating system long date format to used abbreviated day-of-week and month names, such as"ddd d MMM yyyy".
(See Configuring the date/time system settings on your computer.)
2. Use 24-hour time to further reduce the space needed.
| Title | Start | End |
| Team Meeting | Wed 13 Sep 2006 09:30 | Wed 13 Sep 2006 14:30 |
| Appt | Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:30 | Wed 27 Sep 2006 13:30 |
Set your operating system time date format to "HH:mm:ss".
(See Configuring the date/time system settings on your computer.)
3. Display time before date, so year can be cropped.
| Title | Start | End |
| Team Meeting | 11:00 Wed 13 Sep... | 13:00 Wed 13 Sep... |
| Appt | 12:30 Wed 27 Sep... | 13:30 Wed 27 Sep... |
In Sunbird (or Lightning on Thunderbird):
- Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor...
- Filter for <input>calendar.date.formatTimeBeforeDate</input>
- Double click the "Value" to toggle it to true
