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Recently our organization got a couple of server boxes which are I guess present in some data-center in UK. The problem is that for some reason the default Locale representation in Java on that server returns en_US instead of the expected en_GB (I confirmed this by running a code on that server which simply outputs Locale.default()). I am pretty sure this has got something to do the way in which the boxes were set up.

My question is: what would be the approach to fix this issue now that the OS has been installed? Is there any way I can for a given SSH session set the locale as en_GB instead of the current en_US?

TIA,
sasuke

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http://studyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/change-location-on-cent-os-redhat.html

may help you setup your said location

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Unfortunately that doesn't work. For some reason it seems that setting the TZ variable has no effect on the default Locale returned by Java. Even after doing export TZ=Asia/Tokyo, the default locale returned is en_US. – sasuke Oct 31 '10 at 14:03
You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line TZ='Asia/Tokyo'; export TZ to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again. – Rajat Nov 2 '10 at 4:22
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have you tried changing the LANG environment variable in /etc/sysconfig/i18n ?

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But that doesn't seem to be a per user configuration, right? I mean like I can change the format of the time shown by commands like ls by changing the environment variable TZ, can I change the locale on a per-ssh-session basis by setting some environment variable? – sasuke Dec 6 '10 at 20:12
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