A question regarding the date format
 

If i was to require the date format to be in dd/mm/yy i can use export LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO_8859-1" however if i require the date format in yy/mm/dd or yyyy/mm/dd how would i do it?

thanks...

Not sure if this is what you had in mind;
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/strftime.3.html