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[Jean Dewald]

On za, 2009-02-14 at 11:39 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/14/2009 12:57 AM, Jean Dewald wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bas,
> > 
> > Sorry, but I can't find such a submenu.
> > The only thing should be the 'Time and Date Setting', but it allows me
> > only to set the present time, date, and the Time Zone, which is already
> > set to Europe/Brussels. No more.
> > 
> > I think the absence of such a regional setting is the base of my
> > problem.
> > I repeat that I am sure that the designers of Ubuntu never meant users
> > to work around in the environment file just to adapt locales!
> > But why does this menu item not appear on my system?
> > 
> > Anyway thnaks for spending YOUR time in trying to solve MY problems!
> > 
> > Jean
> > 
> > 
> 
> Perhaps if you were to provide the information requested several days ago:
> 
> Please (again from a terminal) post the output of:
> 
> locale
> 
> someone may be able to help. Where and/or what application
> _specifically_ are you wishing to use dd/mm/yy in? Some apps have
> different date/time settings so you can override any locale settings.
> 
Hello again NoOp, 

Hereafter the output you asked for:

jean at QIPSG01:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_BE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

(I modified all the lines which include 'nl_BE.UTF-8')

The '/etc/environment' file looks now as follows:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="nl_BE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="nl_BE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="nl_BE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="nl_BE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nl_BE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nl_BE.UTF-8"

I suppose I'll have to correct the LC_MONETARY too, but till now I think
the local program correction to Euro is working.
My purpose was mainly to obtain a correct date in the Evolution, Contact
and Calender menus.

In European notation, it is very confusing to see the input of a
birthday (ex: 19-07-1969) rejected and stored as 12/07/1969.

The only US Date notation left is in the Top Panel, still announcing 
'za feb 14, 23:01'
But this is not interfering with my work.

Jean