How to adjust locale settings?

megaloman · #1 22nd March 2007, 11:46 AM

Hello guys,

I have a simple problem - I know how to change global locale settings from en_US to en_GB - it's not a problem, but... now I want to get rid of AM/PM in my time format

so my question is simple - how to adjust locale settings? or how to edit locale files?

Code:

$ locale --category-name LC_TIME

shows me my settings, but I don't know how to change them - any ideas?

Thanks in advance

sideways · #2 22nd March 2007, 12:31 PM

I just posted on how to set the first day of the week to monday, I guess it's the same principle, you modify the locale definition file.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...58&postcount=6

(Note, if glibc is updated it may overwrite the new settings)

sideways · #3 22nd March 2007, 01:39 PM

One more point.

The locale files are not easy to read because settings are given as unicode strings, so in the LC_TIME section, for example, the am_pm string definition is given as

Code:

am_pm       "<U0041><U004D>";"<U0050><U004D>"

which translates to "am";"pm", as expected.

This page explains the sections and lists them in the old ascii format, so will be easier to understand.

megaloman · #4 22nd March 2007, 02:41 PM

Thanks for all your help!

I have just solved my problem