From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GKhvd-0006mW-EU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:53:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k85KquIe024243; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:52:56 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k85KmS5L019562 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:48:28 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Sep 2006 20:48:28 -0000 Received: from pD9E8736B.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO elmicha.333200002251-0001.dialin.t-online.de) [217.232.115.107] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 05 Sep 2006 22:48:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #441233 Received: from elmicha by elmicha.333200002251-0001.dialin.t-online.de with local (Exim 4.60 #1 (Gentoo Linux)) id 1GKhqM-00024p-Qn; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:48:26 +0200 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:48:26 +0200 From: Michael Mauch To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: International locale Message-ID: <20060905204826.GA18106@elmicha> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200609050656.46627.pupeno@pupeno.com> <200609051339.27009.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <200609051404.00474.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 75e73d6b-5697-4cf1-ad0f-85cfb32398b6 X-Archives-Hash: ab4fe47e5927fa5cc92c023bc26db36c Remy Blank wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:17, Remy Blank wrote: > >> I couldn't find an > >> english locale that displays the date as dd.mm.yyyy (though I > >> didn't look for all too long). > > > > $ date > > Tue Sep 5 14:02:19 BST 2006 > > $ echo $LC_TIME > > en_GB.utf8 > > I meant: > > $ LC_TIME=en_US date +%x > 09/05/2006 > > But as Neil already pointed out, en_GB has it the other way round, i.e. > it would print 05/09/06 (I would still prefer 05.09.2006). I just > noticed fr_CH is bad, too: 05. 09. 06 (why do they have these spaces in > there?), de_CH is quite ok: 2006-09-05. But you still get the day and > month names in the respective languages. # egrep "^en" /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED >>/etc/locale.gen # locale-gen ... # locale -a|grep en|while read loc ; do LC_TIME="$loc" date "+$loc: %A %x"; done | grep Tuesday | grep 05.09.2006 en_BW: Tuesday 05/09/2006 en_BW.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 en_ZA: Tuesday 05/09/2006 en_ZA.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 en_ZW: Tuesday 05/09/2006 en_ZW.utf8: Tuesday 05/09/2006 Alas, no dots. Regards... Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list