Colin Watson was roused into action on 2002-10-07 12:01 and wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:06:31AM -0400, David P James wrote:
I did this, and the right format is used, but unfortunately the '-'s were replaced by other characters. This is somewhat frustrating; for starters, why is the default date format on the 'internationalist' Debian OS the illogical US standard?There's nothing we can do about it: it's how the C locale is defined.And second, why is there no easy-to-use ISO format date? Right now I'm using the German standard, which is better than what I had, but still not what I want.There's en_DK, which despite being a "joke invention" (http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2001-April/001727.html) seems to produce what you want.
Thank you Colin. Sorry if I sounded a bit terse earlier; I had just gone through the process of generating half a dozen or so different locales with none of them turning out to use the ISO format. I had begun to wonder what en_DK was though, as I could figure out most of the rest (I knew DK was Denmark but English_Denmark didn't seem to make any sense).
-- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV