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==== Locales ==== | ==== Locales ==== | ||
The default format for | The default format for webtags reporting date and/or time is dependent on the locale you are using. | ||
The effect of some output format modifiers is also dependent on locale. | The effect of some output format modifiers is also dependent on locale. | ||
For | For CumulusMX date and time formats within Windows Operating System, you must use the '''Control Panel'''. Go to "Clock and Region" screen, choose "Change date, time or number formats", choose "Language preferences" because it is only there that you can adjust all the defaults used by .NET. | ||
For CumulusMX running on most operating systems (other than Microsoft Windows), type <code>locale</code> to see the default locale that will be adopted when mono-complete is installed as CumulusMX will, by default, take locale setting from Mono. When you start CumulusMX, you can ask it to use a different locale to that picked up by Mono, by adding the parameter "-lang locale-code", see examples at [[MX_on_Linux#Parameters]]. For example, the Australian English language with UTF-8 encoding locale is defined as: en_AU.UTF-8. The available locales on your computer in Linux are listed by <code>locale -a</code>. | |||
The available locales on your computer in Linux are listed by <code>locale -a</code> | |||
For permanently changing the locale used by your system, the instructions vary considerably according to the kernel used in your operating system, so you need to look up the instructions for yourself. However, if you have a graphical user interface, such as the full Raspberry Pi Operating System provides, you might have a configuration command in terminal mode and a configuration app accessed (within ''Preferences'') from the "Raspberry" key on the official keyboard. For the Raspberry Pi, please read [[Raspberry Pi computer page]] for more details. | For permanently changing the locale used by your system, the instructions vary considerably according to the kernel used in your operating system, so you need to look up the instructions for yourself. However, if you have a graphical user interface, such as the full Raspberry Pi Operating System provides, you might have a configuration command in terminal mode and a configuration app accessed (within ''Preferences'') from the "Raspberry" key on the official keyboard. For the Raspberry Pi, please read [[Raspberry Pi computer page]] for more details. |