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On 12/5/2011, at 12:31am, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 May 2011 22:14:55 Mike Edenfield wrote:
>=20
>> The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other =
LC_*
>> variables.
>=20
> - which is precisely what most ordinary desktop users want.

No, I think they want all locale variables to be right. That may be =
achieved by setting LC_ALL, but you are advised, I believe, to set only =
LANG. You haven't justified why LC_ALL is better.

> ... Personally, I have no intention of ever allowing US=20
> "English" to pollute any of my boxes (no offence meant to anyone =
here), so=20
> LC_ALL=3D"en_GB.UTF-8" suits me (so far - until I trip over =
something!).

Could you possibly post the output of `date +"%l:%M%P"`?

In doing so you'd be doing me a favour.

Stroller.