Request locale for ISO 8601 date.

Request locale for ISO 8601 date.

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

  $ for l in `locale -a`; do echo $l `LC_TIME=$l date`; done | tee .dat
  $ grep -E '[[:digit:]]+-[[:digit:]]+-[[:digit:]]+ 
+[[:digit:]]+:[[:digit:]]+:[[:digit:]]+' <.dat
sq_AL 2011-09-01 8:14:09.MD
sq_AL.utf8 2011-09-01 8:14:09.MD

but this is not ISO 8601 as '.MD' component present...

Usually 'LC_TIME' set to 'en_DK' to get ISO 8601 time format
but Cygwin miss this locale.

It is possible install locale to get ISO 8601 date formatting?


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Re: Request locale for ISO 8601 date.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  1 20:18, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>  $ for l in `locale -a`; do echo $l `LC_TIME=$l date`; done | tee .dat
>  $ grep -E '[[:digit:]]+-[[:digit:]]+-[[:digit:]]+
> +[[:digit:]]+:[[:digit:]]+:[[:digit:]]+' <.dat
> sq_AL 2011-09-01 8:14:09.MD
> sq_AL.utf8 2011-09-01 8:14:09.MD
> 
> but this is not ISO 8601 as '.MD' component present...
> 
> Usually 'LC_TIME' set to 'en_DK' to get ISO 8601 time format
> but Cygwin miss this locale.

Cygwin provides all locales supported by the underlying Windows system.
Windows doesn't know en_DK.

Linux (better: glibc) supports en_DK, but what you say doesn't work for
me on Linux either:

  $ LC_TIME=en_DK date
  Thu Sep  1 20:30:01 CEST 2011

No ISO 8601 representation.

> It is possible install locale to get ISO 8601 date formatting?

There is no such locale.  I tried your above grep on the Linux locales
(on F15, glibc 2.14), too, and there isn't even one which has ISO 8601
date/time by default.

If you want that date format, you have to enforce it on a per-command
base, for instance:

  $ date +'%F %T'
  $ ls -l --time-style=long-iso
  $ ls -l --time-style='+%F %T'


Corinna

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