On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > > (The following is based on my experience. I hope I'm not entirely wrong > in my understanding of how this works. :-) > > If you log in on a regular terminal (i.e. not in X at all) then > /etc/environmentis used. Mine looks like this: > > LANGUAGE="en_GB:en_GB:en" > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > > The dpkg-reconfigure you did should have affected that file. However, > I'm not sure whether it'll take effect without a reboot. > > If you log in using a display manager (GDM, KDM, ...) then it might set > the locale itself (I know GDM does). AFAIK you have to log out, change > the locale, then log in again in order to change it. > The OP was asking why "date" does not show the time in the correct time zone. That is set by /etc/timezone or the TZ environment variable. The locale affects the language for month and weekday names, whether dates are shown in m/d/y or d/m/y or y-m-d format, and whether time is shown in 12 or 24 hours.
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