On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:06:31AM -0400, David P James wrote: > Osamu Aoki was roused into action on 07.10.2002 03:29 and wrote: > > $ LC_TIME=ja_JP ls -l > > drwxr-xr-x 4 nospam nospam 4096 2002-08-29 10:28 zlib-1.1.4 > > ... > > > > You need to generate ja_JP locale, though. > > I did this, and the right format is used, but unfortunately the '-'s > were replaced by other characters. This is somewhat frustrating; for > starters, why is the default date format on the 'internationalist' > Debian OS the illogical US standard?
There's nothing we can do about it: it's how the C locale is defined. > And second, why is there no easy-to-use ISO format date? Right now I'm > using the German standard, which is better than what I had, but still > not what I want. There's en_DK, which despite being a "joke invention" (http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2001-April/001727.html) seems to produce what you want. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
