[solved] German date format, but english locale?

Salut,
I prefer the system displaying English texts, though I need German date and number formats. How can I change the date formats?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan
Last edited by vbtricks (2008-05-11 09:50:41)

I've solved it by doing such:
$ cat /etc/profile.d/_locales.sh
# Locale
export LANG="en_US.utf8"
export LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export LC_TIME="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.utf8"
export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
And then in my .bashrc I have the following:
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
. /etc/profile
fi
/etc/profile will go through all files in /etc/profile.d/ and source them if they are executable (so chmod a+x it).

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