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Jo-SR11 / set-date-time-formats.sh
Created November 30, 2022 15:03 — forked from chris-79/set-date-time-formats.sh
Set my preferred date and time formats on OS X
# declare my US locale
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "en_US@currency=USD"
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat -dict-add "AppleIntlCustomLocale" "en_US"
# date string formats
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "1" "yyyy/MM/dd"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "2" "dd MMM y"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "3" "dd MMMM y"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "4" "EEEE, dd MMMM y"