Configure linux locale for US English but metric units & Monday as first week day.
/etc/default/locale as shown below./etc/locale.gen as root. (example below) If it does not exist, create it./usr/sbin/locale-gen as root.You might also want to add export LC_COLLATE="C" to ~/.bashrc to make dotfiles appear first in ls.
| LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" | |
| LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" | |
| LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" |
| # This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list | |
| # of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Other | |
| # combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change | |
| # this file, you need to rerun locale-gen. | |
| # | |
| # XXX GENERATED XXX | |
| # | |
| # NOTE!!! If you change this file by hand, and want to continue | |
| # maintaining manually, remove the above line. Otherwise, use the command | |
| # "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to manipulate this file. You can manually | |
| # change this file without affecting the use of debconf, however, since it | |
| # does read in your changes. | |
| en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 | |
| en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |