You can specify your own date formats that task will use in different situations through the .taskrc configuration file.
you will find more information in the taskrc(5) man page. /Federico On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org>wrote: > Package: task > Version: 2.0.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I started using taskwarrior, and my locales are set like this: > > LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > so basically everything is french except messages. In particular, CTIME > is fr_FR. But in task warrior, setting and displaying due dates, they > are displayed the english way (mm/dd/yyyy) instead of the french way > (dd/mm/yyyy). It'd be nice to respect the user locale, especially since > it can be really confusing and make people miss due dates if they rely > on taskwarrior. > > Regards, > -- > Yves-Alexis > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-grsec-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages task depends on: > ii libc6 2.13-35 > ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 > ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-4 > ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 > ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.2 > > task recommends no packages. > > task suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > >