How to change the date display to international format

On an Ubuntu system:

cd /usr/share/i18n/locales
sudo cp en_US en_INTL
sudo vi en_INTL
change the d_fmt line to: “<U0025><U0059><U002D><U0025><U006d><U002D><U0025><U0064>”
sudo vi /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
add the following line: en_INTL.UTF-8 UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo vi /etc/environment
add the following line: LC_TIME=”en_INTL.UTF-8″

Reboot/relogin. Now you should have dates displayed like this: 2007-01-18.

Who says Linux is not ready for the desktop? Er.. right.

2 Replies to “How to change the date display to international format”

Or make use of the actual settings you have via locale? =)

LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_COLLATE=”sv_SE.UTF-8″
LC_CTYPE=”sv_SE.UTF-8″
LC_MONETARY=”sv_SE.UTF-8″
LC_NUMERIC=”sv_SE.UTF-8″
LC_TIME=”sv_SE.UTF-8″
LC_PAPER=”sv_SE.UTF-8″

Notice the time line =)

I want the dates in english though.

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