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Sorry, I know this is an old post and this is my first Google Groups Post. How do you change Opera to match ISO8601 format? I can't seem to find the Opera Startup Script.

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On Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:20:39 UTC-4, Jonathan A.  wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 17:44:59 +1000, exclipy
> <contact@in.sig> appears to have said:
> 
> > Now does anyone know an English locale with the time in 24hr and the date  
> > in "yyyy-mm-dd" format?
> 
> There is a locale that does this... that's the ISO-8601 format for
> date strings, BTW. A google for LC_TIME + ISO-8601 yielded this
> thread on the debian-user archive about the locale "en_DK":
> 
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/11/msg00750.html>
> 
> I don't think that locale is generally configured in a default install
> of whatever distro. It wasn't on my Slackware 9.0 system. If you don't
> have a directory "en_DK" in your locales directory, your system hasn't
> been configured for it. What I did to set it up was to run, as root:
> 
> (The usual disclaimers apply... never run a command as root if you
> don't know what it does... RTFM... etc, etc.)
> 
> localedef -c -i en_DK /usr/share/locale/en_DK
> localedef --add-to-archive /usr/share/locale/en_DK
> 
> and got:
> 
> jnthn@:~$ LC_ALL="" LC_TIME="en_DK" date +%c
> 
> 2004-05-19T13:49:25 EDT
> 
> Note that if you have the environment variable "LC_ALL" set to anything,
> it will override LC_TIME among others... see man 7 locale. You may want
> to explicitly set the others to your usual locale, and reserve the en_DK
> locale for LC_TIME only if you use it. I want LC_ALL="POSIX" in my bash
> env, so I edited the opera startup script rather than .bash_profile...
> 
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL=""
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_CTYPE="iso_8859-1"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_DK"
> 
> And now dates in opera show in ISO-8601 format (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss)
> 
> Testing seems to show that there's no need to add the variables to the
> "export" line at the end of the script, but I did anyway... I need to
> learn exactly when and why exporting variables is necessary, I suppose.
> 
> HTH,
> Jonathan
> 
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