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Locale and date tools

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Locale and date tools

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- [Instructor] Computer operating systems store settings for region, language, and keyboard key map as locale settings. How to set locale may be the first thing that you need to know in order to use an operating system because if the language is not correct or the key map does not match your physical keyboard, you may not get a lot done. Setting the locale from the GUI is fairly easy. Go into overview mode by clicking on activities and type in region and then select region and language. Here, you can change the system language as well as the format for numbers, dates, and currencies. To change the keyboard key map, click on keyboard in the left-hand pane. Here, you can choose the key map for the keyboard. To add a new key map, click the plus symbol and search. Let's talk about locale settings on the command line. The process of changing locale settings from the CLI on a Linux OS that uses a Systemd service makes use of the…

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