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tyr0

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strange date format in german locale

According to /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE the date format for german locale is defined as follows "2000-06-24", which is not very common in German-speaking countries.Usually date is written as "24.06.2000". Some programs use this "wrong" format.
Is it save to edit the file mentioned above to achieve this format?

Last edited by tyr0 (2010-08-05 18:04:05)

karol

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Re: strange date format in german locale

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[karol@black ~]$ echo $(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
2010-08-05
[karol@black ~]$ echo $(date "+%d-%m-%Y")
05-08-2010

Last edited by karol (2010-08-05 17:45:56)

karol

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Re: strange date format in german locale

I'm not sure, but what happens if you change LC_TIME to "C"? I think you can create your own locale by editing the one closest to what you need.
You can format the date  /time anyway you like, but I'm not sure whether the offending programs start to behave the way you want.

tyr0

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Re: strange date format in german locale

Thank you, karol, formating the file didn´t force programs to use the new format. Maybe my editing isn´t correct.
Actually it isn´t a real problem, because in scripts you can use "date +%d.%m.%g", so I´ll mark this topic as solved.

Last edited by tyr0 (2010-08-06 08:49:43)

karol

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Re: strange date format in german locale

Thank you, karol, formating the file didn´t force programs to use the new format. Maybe my editing isn´t correct.
Actually it isn´t a real problem, because in scripts you can use "date +%d.%m.%g", so I´ll mark this topic as solved.

I see that you decided against marking it as solved - or you forgot about it :-)

Which programs are showing the wrong date? They may be using their own date format and your locales are / were fine.