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How do I change the short date format from dd/mm/yy to mm/dd/yy? I live in the states and this is what I'm used to. It throws me off when I'm viewing the dates of my emails to see them posted with the day first. Currently, I have the time zone designated as Los Angeles/America as I live on the west coast of USA.
Steve
Hmmm. Mine seems to be set to *mm/dd/yy* by default.
did you figure this out? I would like toi change mine from mm/dd/yy to dd/mm/yyyy
Look here and read post 511 on the last page. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=156
I think this is what your looking for.
bulldog said: Look here and read post 511 on the last page.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=156
I think this is what your looking for.
i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related
Seryozha said: i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related
thanks to this thread i have figured out to change my date format to dd/mm/yy all i have to do is date +%d/%B/%Y from a terminal :D
Seryozha said: i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related
Yep wrong link sry.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=222546 post 511
Hope this will work.
To make a permanent change to your date format system wide edit /etc/environment
Look for the line that starts with LANG="
For DDMMYYYY change it to
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
For the very stupid USA format MMDDYYYY
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
There are other formats e.g. YYYYMMDD
LANG="en_DK.UTF-8"
Hope this helps
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Peebo said: To make a permanent change to your date format system wide edit /etc/environment
Look for the line that starts with LANG="
For DDMMYYYY change it to
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
For the very stupid USA format MMDDYYYY
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
There are other formats e.g. YYYYMMDD
LANG="en_DK.UTF-8"
Hope this helps
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wouldn't this change 'everything' to the language you pick (e.g. names of days, etc.) ?
sizzlor said: wouldn't this change 'everything' to the language you pick (e.g. names of days, etc.) ?
Yes it would but I think that is what the O.P. was after. Even though it was posted in this forum I think it was actually a general enquiry about Gnome.