Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

[David P James]

Vincent Lefevre was roused into action on 2002-11-04 14:22 and wrote:
> What locale should I use to have the ISO 8601 date format?
>

I asked this a while ago and became very frustrated when there was no
obvious locale supporting the international standard of yyyy-mm-dd.
However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained
in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark!

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[Vincent Lefevre]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:32:50 -0500, David P James wrote:
> However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained
> in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark!

I've juste generated it with

localedef -c -i en_DK /usr/share/locale/en_DK

(I hope this is correct), but this doesn't change anything:

$ LC_ALL=en_DK date +%x
11/05/02

Before that, I tried with i18n since /usr/share/i18n/locales/i18n
contains:

% Date formats following ISO 8601
% Appropriate date and time representation (%c)
% "%F %T"
d_t_fmt "<U0025><U0046><U0020><U0025><U0054>"
%
% Appropriate date representation (%x) "%F"
d_fmt "<U0025><U0046>"
%
% Appropriate time representation (%X) "%T"
t_fmt "<U0025><U0054>"
t_fmt_ampm ""

But same problem.

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[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Vincent Lefevre said:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:32:50 -0500, David P James wrote:
> > However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained
> > in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark!
>
> I've juste generated it with
>
> localedef -c -i en_DK /usr/share/locale/en_DK

dpkg-reconfigure locales, select the local you want, and try it again.
Set LC_TIME to that locale, and it should work.

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[Vincent Lefevre]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:56:06 -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> dpkg-reconfigure locales, select the local you want, and try it again.
> Set LC_TIME to that locale, and it should work.

Thanks, this works.

BTW, how about an iso8601 alias for en_DK or something like that?

[Fredrik Staxeng]

Vincent Lefevre <vin...@vinc17.org> writes:

>On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:56:06 -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> dpkg-reconfigure locales, select the local you want, and try it again.
>> Set LC_TIME to that locale, and it should work.
>
>Thanks, this works.
>
>BTW, how about an iso8601 alias for en_DK or something like that?

I think it should be called international, standard, world, earth,
tellus or something like that :-). Or, if you insist of following
the established pattern, en_STD or en_INT. I don't like en_ISO
though.

English, metric, iso dates, A4, decimal point. In short, the right thing.

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