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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)?
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)? |
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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:32:33 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:54:11PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> When on my en_CA machine I did the "locale -a" command I got
> en_CA.utf8
That's good.
> 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?
Indeed.
You can safely experiment with LC_TIME by running GNUmed like this:
- go to the directory which contains gm-from-cvs.sh
- run
&> LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 ./gm-from-cvs.sh
and you should at least see a difference in some date
formatting.
Karsten
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