I would like to globally set the Linux date format to ISO, which looks roughly like this:
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
2009-03-16 15:20:00
With varying levels of detail, such as omitting time, seconds, etc.
I know that for some applications, you can configure this manually, but I'd like it to be automatically set for every program.
I'm specifically using Ubuntu Intrepid, but a general solution that would work across all distributions would be best.
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Set your locale date environment variable
LC_TIME
to "en_DK" Set it in your.bashrc
or similar, or checkman locale
for how to set it system-wide.On ArchLinux all of the Locale settings are in
/etc/rc.conf
and customisations are set up in/etc/rc.local
#!/bin/bash # Local multi-user startup script export LC_TIME="en_DK"
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Some people would advise to change your local to german "en_DK" this kind of works if you don't mind the day and month names being in german. Since I cannot post hyperlinks,and this board sees my linux commands as hyperlinks.... (nice one)... I can only say you search (google) how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu and click the first link.
Neil : He meant this link: http://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/GodEater : en_DK is not the German locale either, it's danish. -
Probably the best way to do this, but not break things is to follow the walkthrough at
http://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/
From Mez -
It's explained at length in this guide: http://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/
Neil : I went and found the link since prestiginate said he couldn't post hyperlinks. And I actually had been there before, but I guess I never bothered doing it on this machine, making me think whatever I tried before didn't work.From Neil
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