Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

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Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 14:31, schrieb Johannes Wiedersich:

> > etch: »31.12.2008 12:34« to
> > lenny: »13. Dez 12:34« and (IMO abdominable...!):
> > lenny: »13. Dez 2006« (for older entries)
>
> That looks horrible, indeed.
>
> > Is there an easy way to get back my desired format as it has been on
> > etch, preferably without the need to customize a locale file?
>
> Probably not.
>
> > As a workaround, I changed LC_TIME to "en_US.UTF-8", as this provides me
> > at least with an ISO-8601-conform format, but I'd prefer the numerical
> > display for german like it has been on etch.

Please see my replay-to-myself on this topic. On etch, ISO 8601 *is* standard 
for »LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8«, »DD.MM.YYYY hh.mm« just somehow came up to me.

> This looks promising
>
>http://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/

Found that this morning, too. Seems like the proper way to fix my imaginary 
problem...

> HTH,
> Johannes

Thanks for your reply,
hk47