Re: Show me locale fomats

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

2009/6/23 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>:
>> Normally you don't need to know.  You use strptime(3) to print the
>> date and/or time.  For example, strptime("%c", ...).  The manual
>> page will give you the detail.
>>
>> To get the format string, do:
>> locale -k d_fmt
>> d_fmt="%d/%m/%y"
>> (en_GB)
>>
>> A list of keywords is found in locale(5).
>>
>
> I see, thanks. Other than changing my locale to a foreign locale
> (well, ok, US is a foreign locale for me but there is a reason that I
> keep it), is there a way to configure yyyy-mm-dd date format?


Set English in Denmark (en_DK.UTF-8) as your LC_TIME.
Obviously something like jp_JP would also do it, but then
you would get Japanese month names, etc.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers