Internationalisation locales - en_AU + ISO 8601 dates

This locale file can be included in your system locales. It merges Australian English locale with some more sane date formats.

The time and dates displayed for various commands will then be in new formats.

Changes date and time formats from:

• Tue 1 Dec 23:19:12 AEDT 2015
• Tue 01 Dec 2015 23:19:12 AEDT
• 01/12/15
• 11:19:12 pm

to:

• Tue 01-Dec-2015 23:19:12 AEDT
• 2015-12-01T02:45:31 AEST
• 2015-12-01
• 23:19:12

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Installation - System

Install the file to /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_KRAYON

sudo install -m0644 -oroot -groot usr-share-i18n-locales-en_KRAYON /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_KRAYON

Add it to your /etc/locale.gen

cat <<EOF |sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen
en_KRAYON ISO-8859-1
en_KRAYON.UTF-8 UTF-8
EOF

Regenerate your locales

sudo locale-gen

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Installation - Local user

Can instead store it for local user, and set PATH_LOCALE, see:

• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2015-June/266181.html

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Enable

Set your environment variable LC_TIME to en_KRAYON. You can also add this to your .bashrc, bash_profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile etc

export LC_TIME=en_KRAYON

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Other settings of use

These are other things to add to your .bashrc etc to keep you sane:

# libc's date format seems to default to "Mth DD  YYYY" / "Mth DD HH:MM"
# ... this ensures ls -la shows the LOGICAL "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM"
export TIME_STYLE='long-iso'

# libc's collating (ls sort order) is mixed, we want all dot files together etc
export LC_COLLATE='C'

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