Setting Date Format

[Kennedy_1]

How do I Change the date format from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yy(European Format) in my server HPUX 11 without rebooting

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi,
Your question isn't very specific so I'm not sure if you are trying to do this a a system-wide sense or a local sense. Here goes:
If all you want is to format a date command,
date '+%d/%m/%y' will do it.
If you are looking for a more general answer then you will need to set and export the LANG variable. (man date, locale to get started)

try this as an example:
do a date command and note the format
now export LANG="en_GB.roman8"
and date again.

Note: Application programs are not guaranteed to properly use the locale; they should but again no guaratee's.

Hope this gets you started, Clay

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

date [-u] [mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]]mm

[Kennedy_1]

In my case Im doing a testing. I want to check if this software works fin even if the date format is set to european format.From your reply I can see the difference whe I echo date. Also how do I reset to the US Date Format
Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi,
You can simply do an unset LANG and the default behavior will kick in.

Bear in mind, if you set LANG and export, that only this shell and its child processes.
This is not a system-wide change; anything you do is safe.

Clay

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

To reset LANG to its default, do:

# export LANG=POSIX

To see other options, do:

# locale -a

...JRF...