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Old 01-06-2024, 07:55 AM   #1
maart
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How to change default date setting system wide


Hi

Can i set de date so that it will give date month year system wide?
If i use Thunderbird for instance the date is marked 1/6/24 i want it to be 6/1/24


Code:
ls -l /etc/localtime gives 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 28 14:06 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
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Old 01-06-2024, 08:09 AM   #2
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What do you have in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh ? If you don't want 'export LANG=nl_NL.utf8', you can set it only for time: 'export LC_TIME=nl_NL.utf8'.
 
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