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Remy Blank wrote: |
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> Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:17, Remy Blank wrote: |
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> >> I couldn't find an |
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> >> english locale that displays the date as dd.mm.yyyy (though I |
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> >> didn't look for all too long). |
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> > |
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> > $ date |
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> > Tue Sep 5 14:02:19 BST 2006 |
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> > $ echo $LC_TIME |
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> > en_GB.utf8 |
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> |
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> I meant: |
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> |
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> $ LC_TIME=en_US date +%x |
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> 09/05/2006 |
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> |
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> But as Neil already pointed out, en_GB has it the other way round, i.e. |
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> it would print 05/09/06 (I would still prefer 05.09.2006). I just |
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> noticed fr_CH is bad, too: 05. 09. 06 (why do they have these spaces in |
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> there?), de_CH is quite ok: 2006-09-05. But you still get the day and |
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> month names in the respective languages. |
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# egrep "^en" /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED >>/etc/locale.gen |
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# locale-gen |
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... |
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# locale -a|grep en|while read loc ; do |
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LC_TIME="$loc" date "+$loc: %A %x"; |
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done | grep Tuesday | grep 05.09.2006 |
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en_BW: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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en_BW.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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en_ZA: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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en_ZA.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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en_ZW: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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en_ZW.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 |
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Alas, no dots. |
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Regards... |
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Michael |
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