Locale setting on a Red Hat box

Hi all,

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

From serverfault sasuke

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

  may help you setup your said location

  sasuke : 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`.
  From Rajat