Locale

Question 1

Display locale info

Answer 1

locale
here LANG var in set
localectl
also contains LANG var
LANG=en_US.utf8

Question 2

List out available locales

Answer 2

localectl list-locales

Question 3

Set new locale language

Answer 3

LANG=pl_PL.utf8

This will update all values shown in locale command with =pl_PL.utf8

Question 4

Util to convert files from one char encoding to another

Answer 4

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -o new_utf8_file old_iso8859_file

Question 5

Update locale permanently

Answer 5

localectl set-locale el_GR.iso88597

Question 6

Display date

Answer 6

date -u UTC time
date +%F -full date
date +%D -M/D/Y
date +%m-%d-%Y
date +%a -Thu
date +%A -Thursday
date +%b -Jun
date +%d- 31

Question 7

Display current date and date settings

Answer 7

timedatectl

Question 8

Apply time settings

Answer 8

timedatectl set-time “2020-01-01 01:00:25”

Question 9

List timezones

Answer 9

timedatectl list-timezones

Question 10

Set timezone

Answer 10

timedatectl set-timezone “America/New_York”

Question 11

Menu-driven util to set up timezone

Answer 11

tzselect

Question 12

RHEL location of file with timezone settings

Debian location of file with timezone settings

Answer 12

/etc/localtime

/etc/timezone