I have two identical machines upon which I have installed slack 10. The date format displayed by each machine is different.

One machine displays the date in this manner;
2006-01-11 14:09
The other machine displays the date this way;
Oct 25 16:04

Now I believe the resaon is that when I installed the OS (many weeks apart and several weeks ago) that I installed support for international languages upon one and not the other.

The first machine has /usr/bin/locale the second machine does not.

My question is "How do I install /usr/bin/locale and any necessary supporting files upon the second machine and what is this function called on the distro disks??

TIA for any assistance.

George Pederson

Four machines here all display it this way:
Thu Feb 23 15:44:41 CST 2006
bruce@silas:~$ ls -lh /usr/bin/locale
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 32K 2005-12-09 10:19 /usr/bin/locale

Slackware 10.1 through Slackware -current

it's glibc package, install glibc package from slackware cd 1 on folder ./slackware/l/

Thank you karunamurti. That was just what I needed to know. Now both machines have the same date format of all numbers. It may not seem like a big deal to some but scripts that look at the date from a listing need to have predictably formatted data to examine.

George