Re: [osol-discuss] setting date to iso 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)

2010-03-18 Thread robs
Thanks! So, I wrote a quick script to look through the options available to me with locale -a, and then run the date command. Output is attached. The closest thing to what I was after was zh_CN.UTF-8, which I now set via this line in .bashrc export LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8 (I work in Beijing,

Re: [osol-discuss] setting date to iso 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)

2010-03-16 Thread Hemantha Holla
On 16/03/10 13:10, robs wrote: Hi. Although as a PROUD American, I PROUDLY use en_US.UTF-8, I'd really like to go the -MM-DD route for displaying time. Not only as returned by date, but displayed by %s in thunderbird in the mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote preference. I'm thinking th

[osol-discuss] setting date to iso 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)

2010-03-16 Thread robs
Hi. Although as a PROUD American, I PROUDLY use en_US.UTF-8, I'd really like to go the -MM-DD route for displaying time. Not only as returned by date, but displayed by %s in thunderbird in the mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote preference. I'm thinking this would be done using LC_TIME,