On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is > > very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to > > lenny, > > the default display format for date/time when doing a "ls -al" for the > > german > > locale unfortunately changed from > > > > 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. > > This looks promising > > http://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/
It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. (So does ja_JP.UTF-8 , but French, German, Spanish seems not to do so) os...@snoopy:~$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ls -l insgesamt 172 drwxr-xr-x 3 osamu osamu 4096 23. Dez 01:21 bin ... os...@snoopy:~$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 ls -l insgesamt 172 drwxr-xr-x 3 osamu osamu 4096 2008-12-23 01:21 bin ... Here LC_MESSAGE is de_DE.UTF-8 while date is ISO-8601 format! Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
