Forcing "date" to use a locale other than the machine default
bash, date, unix
Solution
Sure, you can always specify the format yourself:
date +%a, %b %d
or you can use a temporary environmental variable:
:~$ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 date
Mo 15. Okt 15:34:11 CEST 2012
:~$ date
Mon Oct 15 15:33:24 CEST 2012
As you see, only the first command is run with the German locale.
Problem
Is there a way to force the *nix command "date" to output in a specific format independent of the local? For example, if I call "date -u" today, on a US machine I get: ``` Mon Oct 15 13:15:29 UTC 2012 ``` but on a German machine I get: ``` Mo 15. Okt 13:15:31 UTC 2012 ```