Dear friends,

I use RedHat 8.0, KDE Desktop, installation in English US language. Gnome is not installed.

In Mozilla e-mail try to get the dates in the format YY/MM/DD. I *must* have this, because the format MM/DD/YY is totally confusing to me.

This date format is used in Sweden, so a Swedish locale should do.

My installation uses LANG=en_US.UTF-8

According to Mozillia.org, I should enter
export LC_TIME =sv_SE
to get the date format right.

However, whatever setting I use for LC_TIME, it is not possible to get any other date format.

I am not sure this is a KDE problem. When I work in level 3, the output of the date command is:
[root@donald_pc /]# date +%x
10/15/03
Still wrong!

The output of the locale command is like this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE"
<cut>
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

When I issue the command locale -a, I ONLY see en_** locales, like:
[root@donald_pc /]# locale -a
C
en_AU
en_AU.utf8
en_BW
en_BW.utf8
etc
etc

However, in the /usr/share/i18n/locale directory the file sv_SE *is* present. I also tried to set LC_TIME to sv-SE.UTF-8, but to no avail.

So the questions are:

- Why do I only see en_** with the locale -a command?
- Why is it not possible to change the date format in text mode?
- Why can't I change the date format in KDE applicatons?

Help is highly appreciated

Hans Linkels

export LC_TIME =sv_SE
Maybe it's just your typo, but a space slipped in before the equal sign.
if I do "export LC_TIME=sv_SE" "date +%x" shows YYYY-MM-DD format.

Ok, it was either a typo or I put the sv_SE between quotes (because all other environment variables are withing quotes). It works for me as well. Muy estupido!

For Mozilla, I made the error to enter the setting in a terminal window, but started Mozilla from the KDE shortcut. It is obvious that you should start Mozilla from the same terminal window as where the locale setting is entered. Muy, *muy* estupido!

Anyway, my problem is solved. Thanks for your support.

Hans

If you speak english, you may want to use en_DK instead of sv_SE. The date format is the same, but the month and day strings are in english.
--Rich