Which environment variable to set for english output, but ISO units

Question

which linux environment variable do I have to set for english output, but ISO/metric units for time, date, etc. ?

Currently I have in my env:

LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=

Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 12:09

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You should set LC_TIME, for other LC_* variables look at The Open Group's Locale man page.

answered Mar 05 '14 at 12:09

ismail

Yes, but to what?I looked at the link, but I could not find out what I have to set where, I'm missing examples. – faow Mar 05 '14 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 12:10

I would generate the UK locale.

sudo locale-gen en_UK.UTF-8

The system wide locales are stated in /etc/default/locale in Ubuntu, so give that file the contents:

LANG=en_UK.UTF-8

The instructions for this are going to vary widely from distro to distro though.

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