Changing LC_TIME locale

[Jeroen1000]

Hello everybody,

When I type date in the command prompt, the month is outputted as text. Now, I would like to change this specific setting using a script. I have already found out what to change. If you type locale -k LC_TIME, you will get a list of LC_TIME variables (please refer to the bottom of this post).

The line which I am interested in is: date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y".

If I am correct, I should change the %b into %m and when I issue the date command again, may will have changed to 5 (please note my language setting is dutch )

Could some please tell me how to do this. I've been looking for ages now!

Many thanks,

Jeroen

abday="zo;ma;di;wo;do;vr;za"
day="zondag;maandag;dinsdag;woensdag;donderdag;vri jdag;zaterdag"
abmon="jan;feb;mrt;apr;mei;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov ;dec"
mon="januari;februari;maart;april;mei;juni;juli;au gustus;september;oktober;november;december"
am_pm=";"
d_t_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %T %Z"
d_fmt="%d-%m-%y"
t_fmt="%T"
t_fmt_ampm=""
era=
era_year=""
era_d_fmt=""
alt_digits=
era_d_t_fmt=""
era_t_fmt=""
time-era-num-entries=0
time-era-entries="z"
week-ndays=7
week-1stday=19971130
week-1stweek=0
first_weekday=2
first_workday=1
cal_direction=1
timezone=""
date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
time-codeset="UTF-8"

[Franklin52]

Hi Jeroen,

I don't know what you're trying to achieve. If you want to get the Dutch format try this:

date +%d-%m-%Y

Regards