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Gowtham
Asked: 2018-08-21 00:58:24 +0800 CST

Change default date format

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I've been trying to change the default date format since past few days.

Current format:-

$date
Mon Aug 20 14:14:43 IST 2018

Expected format:-

$date
Monday August 20 14:14:43 IST 2018

Current locale 

$locale

LANG=en_IN
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_IN
LC_NUMERIC="en_IN"
LC_TIME=en_DK
LC_COLLATE="en_IN"
LC_MONETARY="en_IN"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IN"
LC_PAPER="en_IN"
LC_NAME="en_IN"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IN"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IN"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IN"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IN"
LC_ALL=

LC_TIME section in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_DK 

% date formats following ISO 8601-1988
d_t_fmt  "<U0025><U0059><U002D><U0025><U006D><U002D><U0025><U0064><U0054><U0025><U0054><U0020><U0025><U005A>"
d_fmt    "<U0025><U0059><U002D><U0025><U006D><U002D><U0025><U0064>"
t_fmt    "<U0025><U0054>"
am_pm    "";""
t_fmt_ampm  ""

% Appropriate date representation (date(1))   "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
date_fmt    "<U0025><U0061><U0020><U0025><U0062><U0020><U0025><U0065>/
<U0020><U0025><U0048><U003A><U0025><U004D><U003A><U0025><U0053><U0020>/
<U0025><U005A><U0020><U0025><U0059>"

I have referred this tutorial which I have come across to be the best and lengthy enough to be clear.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 stretch. I need to modify this en_DK file or create a custom locale that suits my need. Although there are several workarounds like creating aliases. But I prefer to know what is going wrong.

server locale date

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I would really recommend to use

    date +'%A %B %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'

    instead somehow. Creating a custom locale for the purpose feels like overdoing it.

    Edit:

    An option might be to

    • edit date_fmt in the en_DK locale definition file and replace <U0061> and <U0062> with <U0041> respective <U0042>
    • run the command sudo locale-gen en_DK.UTF-8

    You should also set en_DK.UTF_8 for LC_TIME, not en_DK (the latter enables latin1 encoding).

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