Re: [Gnumed-devel] Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:54:11PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> When on my en_CA machine I did the "locale -a" command I got

>       en_CA.utf8
That's good.

> I have not yet, in Debian, found any control panel that permits the user 
> to specify or override the locale setting for the machine's (or the 
> user's) default date format. So I am wondering -- I concede, without 
> doing the experiment to try it, but... -- if I were to change my LC_TIME 
> setting to something that uses ISO instead of POSIX, would that be 
> expected to be recognized and followed by GNUmed client?

Indeed.

You can safely experiment with LC_TIME by running GNUmed like this:

- go to the directory which contains gm-from-cvs.sh
- run

        &> LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 ./gm-from-cvs.sh

and you should at least see a difference in some date
formatting.

Karsten
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