Strange date format in german locale

According to /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE the date format for german locale is defined as follows "2000-06-24", which is not very common in German-speaking countries.Usually date is written as "24.06.2000". Some programs use this "wrong" format.
Is it save to edit the file mentioned above to achieve this format?
Last edited by tyr0 (2010-08-05 18:04:05)

tyr0 wrote:Thank you, karol, formating the file didn´t force programs to use the new format. Maybe my editing isn´t correct.
Actually it isn´t a real problem, because in scripts you can use "date +%d.%m.%g", so I´ll mark this topic as solved.
I see that you decided against marking it as solved - or you forgot about it :-)
Which programs are showing the wrong date? They may be using their own date format and your locales are / were fine.

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