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[Gnumed-devel] Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)?
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Jim Busser |
Subject: |
[Gnumed-devel] Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)? |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:54:11 -0700 |
I found the following at
http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/
international_iso-8601_date_on_thunderbird.html
When on my en_CA machine I did the "locale -a" command I got
C
en_CA.utf8
POSIX
I have not yet, in Debian, found any control panel that permits the
user to specify or override the locale setting for the machine's (or
the user's) default date format. So I am wondering -- I concede,
without doing the experiment to try it, but... -- if I were to change
my LC_TIME setting to something that uses ISO instead of POSIX, would
that be expected to be recognized and followed by GNUmed client?
============================
Fix for Ubuntu
$ export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
$ mozilla-thunderbird
To fix this permanently, put the line in your $HOME/.bashrc,
$HOME/.profile or create a shell script thunderdates and put the
export in that.
Tested with Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7
on 2005-12-11.
Fix for other Debian derivatives
Locale names differ on different systems. To see installed locales on
your computer
$ locale -a
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
[..]
The correct locale for displaying ISO-8601 dates using LC_TIME is the
one containing en_DK It means English in Denmark, name is probably a
joke. Common settings are “LC_TIME=en_DK” and “LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8”.
To see locales in use,
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[..]
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
[..]
Future
Most of the world has already ridden itself of obsoleted units, such
as inches and feet. I hope that soon all programs could have sensible
defaults, for example units from the SI-system (metric system) and
iso-8601. We still have work to do in Finland too, as some people
still talk of “calories” (an obsolete and unclearly defined unit for
energy) instead of using the SI-unit joule.
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