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Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default?

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default?
Date 2017-05-27 16:30 +0200
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On 2017-05-27, gwmfms6@openmailbox.org <gwmfms6@openmailbox.org> wrote:

> This definitely explains the problem (Thanks for contributing!), but I 
> don't think it's a real solution because changing the Gnome region like 
> described (although it does change LC_TIME) changes other variables (in 
> addition to LC_TIME) that make no sense for the United States (eg., 
> LC_NUMERIC, LC_MONETARY, LC_PAPER).
>
> Denmark does LC_NUMERIC wrong (using a comma where there should be a 
> decimal point). The United States does LC_TIME and LC_MEASUREMENT wrong.

Holy Jesus.

> I want to make everything proper and swapping to all en_DK variables 
> fixes some things but not others. The only proper solution is to:
>
> 1) be able to change individual variables within Gnome (which I don't 
> think is possible in current gnome)

> 2) create my own locale, which I do not know how to do. I've found two 
> guides (linked below) for doing it but neither of them worked for me (I 
> think the part about using localedef appears to not be working.)
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136920/set-custom-locales-in-gnome3-on-fedora-20
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/653008/how-to-create-a-new-system-locale
>

Define "appears to not be working." Anyhow, I believe someone here can
help you with this if only they'll pipe up (and you stop top-posting).

;-)

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How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-26 17:40 +0200
  Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-26 17:50 +0200
    Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-26 18:10 +0200
      Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-26 18:40 +0200
        Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-26 18:50 +0200
          Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-26 19:00 +0200
            Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-26 19:10 +0200
              Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 12:20 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-27 14:40 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-27 17:20 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-27 20:10 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 22:00 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-05-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-27 17:30 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2017-05-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-05-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-27 18:10 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-28 03:50 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-30 14:50 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-30 18:30 +0200
                RE: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? "Emanuele Bernardi" <e.berna@posteo.net> - 2017-05-30 18:50 +0200
                RE: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-31 16:10 +0200
          Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-26 19:00 +0200
            Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-26 19:10 +0200
              Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? gwmfms6@openmailbox.org - 2017-05-26 19:10 +0200
                Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default? James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2017-05-27 20:50 +0200

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