Dates and their formats

[Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob ZOOstation cc>]

Hi all, is there a way to change from the backwards american date format 
for GNOME?  

It's just something I noticed today when playing with a calendar widget 
in Glade.  Here in NEw Zealand we use the British date system, where we 
list the Day, then Month and year so tody would be 9/4/2000 but the 
amrican dates (4/9/2000) make me think it's the 4 of September.

Is there a Global Gnome variable I can set, or is this a general 
Linux/Unix thing I should set?


  Rob Brown-Bayliss
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