2007/8/21, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 12:32 +0100, jorge santos wrote: > > > I live in Portugal and our date format is ISO (yyyy-mm-dd). Since I > > always use all of my software in US English the date format changes > > automatically to the mm-dd-yyyy format which is BAD for me, and I hate > > it :). > > > > Is there a way to make it possible, in future Gnome releases, to select > > the date formats independently from the Language selected by the user? > > You're right that we could perhaps do a better job of this. On the plus > side, because GNOME respects the *nix environment's choice of date > format (which I suspect KDE doesn't if you can change it on the fly for > running applications), it's relatively easy to do what you want. > > The global fix would be to set your LC_TIME environment variable to your > chosen locale, so that gnome-session and all the apps launched in your > session pick it up. Not sure which file you would have to edit to > achieve this; would probably depend on which distro you're running. > > For specific apps, you should be able to use the same approach to > override the date format on the command line, e.g. run 'LC_TIME=pt > evolution' or whatever. (Not sure whether 'pt' is actually the right > locale for you-- that doesn't seem to provide ISO format dates either.) > Of course, you could encapsulate this in a launcher icon for easy access > too.
Note that if you have LC_ALL set to something, the LC_TIME has no effect (at least for me): $ LC_ALL=fi_FI LC_TIME=en_GB date ti elokuun 21. 13:58:56 EEST 2007 $ LC_ALL= LC_TIME=en_GB date Tue Aug 21 13:59:00 EEST 2007 -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
