Linux returns US date format on all systems

grechcj · **Posted:** Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:03 pm

I'm still getting complaints from UK and Australian customers that my RS app shows the date in shortdate format mm/dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy.
They say all other programs on their Linux system show the date correctly so it appears their system date is correct.
What could be causing this?

kermit · **Joined:** Mon May 30, 2011 12:56 am **Posts:** 702

How do you format the date before you display it?
What does your code look like?

grechcj · **Posted:** Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:02 pm

Quote:

How do you format the date before you display it?
What does your code look like?

Dim d as new date
msgbox d.shortdate

georgelbs · **Joined:** Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:35 pm **Posts:** 37

on ubuntu open terminal and type:
sudo gedit/etc/environment

copy an paste

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=en_AU.utf8
LC_TIME=en_AU.utf8
LC_COLLATE=en_AU.utf8
LC_MONETARY=en_AU.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.utf8
LC_PAPER=en_AU.utf8
LC_NAME=en_AU.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=en_AU.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_AU.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_AU.utf8

don´t forget to save before exit gedit, then reboot

hope this help

MonkeybreadSoftware · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:48 am

For numbers I wrote a plugin function FormatMBS, so we can get the number in the format we specify.
So for an english user, we let it format in english and for a German user in German.

Greetings
Christian

grechcj · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:27 pm

Quote:

on ubuntu open terminal and type:
sudo gedit/etc/environment

Thanks this worked.
I needed to enter it as: sudo gedit'/etc/environment' and only needed to add the line LC_TIME=en_AU.utf8 to change the date format.

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