Changes between Version 78 and Version 79 of 0.12/TracFaq

Timestamp:

Nov 5, 2004, 1:06:36 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

anonymous

Comment:

Added section about setting the locale for changing the date and time format

0.12/TracFaq

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 With the `TracAdmin`:trac: command ''hotcopy''. See `TracBackup`:trac: for documentation, however this is not available in 0.7.1 but only in newer versions.
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+How do I change the format used for displaying date and time?
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+You change the format by setting an appropriate 'locale' in the Apache config. You do this by adding 
+
+::
+
+  SetEnv LC_TIME "xx_YY"
+
+right after the line where you set TRAC_ENV. 
+
+:xx: The language code as defined in `ISO 639`_
+:YY: The upper case, two letter country code as defined in `ISO 3166`_
+
+Examples: *de_DE* is Germany, *en_GB* in Great Britain end *fr_FR* is France
+
+**When it does not work**
+
+First, you should check, if the chosen locale is installed on the system at all. On Linux, you can use
+
+::
+
+  localedef --list-archive
+
+to list the installed locale definitions.
+
+If this is not the problem, then LC_TIME may be overridden by LC_ALL or LANGUAGE defined in the system environment. You may try one of them (LANGUAGE has highest priority) instead LC_TIME. Note that LC_TIME just affects the date and time display, whereas LC_ALL and LANGUAGE also affect handling of system messages, sorting and other country dependent output/input. So the conservative way is to stick to LC_TIME if possible.
+
+.. _`ISO 639`: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/ISO_639
+.. _`ISO 3166`: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/ISO_3166
 
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