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history 'most recent visit' not showing year anymore

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only date day and time. i need the year. it used to have that until recently. attached image is not last year's september. even if it was. need the whole date.

only date day and time. i need the year. it used to have that until recently. attached image is not last year's september. even if it was. need the whole date.
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The date format is decided by your Windows system locale.

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The date format is decided by your Windows system locale.

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See this thread for links and comments which may be helpful.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1435850

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zeroknight said

The date format is decided by your Windows system locale.

thank you both so much for a quick response to a first-time poster, i didn't expect that!

firefox indeed uses windows 'short date' format, so if i change it in the ancient date & time 'app' to, for example, M/d/yyyy, ff history will also show the year.

awesome!

and might there not be some magic trick whereby ff could show the year but i could still have short-date format without it, for taskbar declutter? by having ff use long date instead of short, for instance.

thank you muchly! mark