Need help changing short date format

[trenths]

How do I change the short date format from dd/mm/yy to mm/dd/yy? I live in the states and this is what I'm used to. It throws me off when I'm viewing the dates of my emails to see them posted with the day first. Currently, I have the time zone designated as Los Angeles/America as I live on the west coast of USA.

Steve

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Hmmm. Mine seems to be set to mm/dd/yy by default.

[Seryozha]

did you figure this out? I would like toi change mine from mm/dd/yy to dd/mm/yyyy

[bulldog]

Look here and read post 511 on the last page.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=156

I think this is what your looking for.

[Seryozha]

Look here and read post 511 on the last page.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=156

I think this is what your looking for.


i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related

[Seryozha]

i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related

thanks to this thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205383&highlight=date+time+format) i have figured out to change my date format to dd/mm/yy all i have to do is date +%d/%B/%Y from a terminal :D

[bulldog]

i dunno if that is a wrong link or im retarded. probably the latter. The link just brings up the forum. i looked at the last page but dont see anything related

Yep wrong link sry.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=222546
post 511

Hope this will work.

[Peebo]

To make a permanent change to your date format system wide edit /etc/environment

Look for the line that starts with
LANG="

For DDMMYYYY change it to

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

For the very stupid USA format MMDDYYYY

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

There are other formats e.g. YYYYMMDD

LANG="en_DK.UTF-8"

Hope this helps

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[sizzlor]

To make a permanent change to your date format system wide edit /etc/environment

Look for the line that starts with
LANG="

For DDMMYYYY change it to

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

For the very stupid USA format MMDDYYYY

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

There are other formats e.g. YYYYMMDD

LANG="en_DK.UTF-8"

Hope this helps

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wouldn't this change 'everything' to the language you pick (e.g. names of days, etc.) ?

[Malac]

wouldn't this change 'everything' to the language you pick (e.g. names of days, etc.) ?
Yes it would but I think that is what the O.P. was after. Even though it was posted in this forum I think it was actually a general enquiry about Gnome.