Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
Christian Menzel wrote:The easier way would be setting LC_TIME to "en_US:en", so other apps show the time as well in your preferred format.This doesn't work so hot if you have UTF-8 encoded file names. I get ?? for those characters. If I set LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" in addition the characters are displayed correctly.
For which characters? The date output should be all ASCII characters, so it should be valid UTF-8 encoded data.