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You can define the LC_TIME environment variable. In ~/.profile if you start you session in a login shell or else ~/.bashrc, put export LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 For example, % LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 da...
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Quasímodo
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2023-10-07T11:43:51Z (about 1 year ago)
You can define the `LC_TIME` environment variable. E.g.,LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 datewill make the output format be in Russian, _as long as you already have that locale enabled (or, better said, generated)_, which you can check with `locale -a`.If it is not generated yet, find the corresponding line in `/etc/locale.gen`, remove the `#` from it and run `locale-gen`.All the environment variables heeded by [`date` are found in the POSIX specification](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html).---- In a desktop environment, there might be a corresponding option in the localization settings.
- You can define the `LC_TIME` environment variable. In `~/.profile` if you start you session in a login shell or else `~/.bashrc`, put
- export LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
- For example,
- % LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 date
- Сб 07 окт 2023 13:39:21 CEST
- will make the output format be in Russian,
- That only works if you already have that locale enabled (or, better said, generated), which you can check with `locale -a`. If it is not generated yet, find the corresponding line in `/etc/locale.gen`, remove the `#` from it and run `locale-gen`.
- In a desktop environment, there might be a corresponding option in the localization settings.
- All the environment variables heeded by [`date` specifically are found in the POSIX specification](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html).
- And the [locale section](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html#tag_07_03_05) lists the variable in more details, as well as which other functions must respect it.
- There is an expectation, but not a guarantee, that time related programs and functions will respect that variable.
#1: Initial revision
by
Quasímodo
·
2023-10-07T11:29:14Z (about 1 year ago)
You can define the `LC_TIME` environment variable. E.g.,
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 date
will make the output format be in Russian, _as long as you already have that locale enabled (or, better said, generated)_, which you can check with `locale -a`.
If it is not generated yet, find the corresponding line in `/etc/locale.gen`, remove the `#` from it and run `locale-gen`.
All the environment variables heeded by [`date` are found in the POSIX specification](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html).
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In a desktop environment, there might be a corresponding option in the localization settings.