I am using Nemo File manager for some time now and one of the things that annoyed me a little is the date format it uses for any of the date columns (Date Modified, Date Accessed, etc.). I know there is a setting to change the date format, but the options seems limited. Is there a way to add/set a short date format for the date columns? Something like Mar 8, 12:59 AM rather than Tue 08 2016 12:29:52 AM EST?
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If you don't mind using the terminal a bit, first run locale -a. That'll tell you which locales are available to you according to man locale.
Now, I don't use the nemo file manager but let's assume the program can be invoked by running nemo in a terminal (as opposed to taking a GUI route for now).
Keeping the output of locale -a in mind, try various LANG options to see which one gives you the format most close to what you like:
LANG=en_GB.utf8 pcmanfm works for me with the PCManFM file manager. The date modified column with this command has the output like this: dd/mm/yy hh:mm.
Just default PCManFM gives me Monday 15 August 2016 20:39.
If you find a LANG option that you like, you could modify your Exec line accordingly in nemo's desktop file (after backing up the original .desktop file for safety). Alternatively, copy "nemo.desktop" or whatever it's called from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications and modify the copied version.
If the program doesn't offer such an option, it would require a code change.
The program uses the full date/time format:
$ date +'%c'
Tue 30 Aug 2016 05:53:32 AM CESTYou are asking for something like this:
$ date +'%b, %_d %I:%M %p'
Aug, 30 05:54 AMOnly changing the locale probably wouldn't help much:
$ LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 date +'%c'
Tue 30 Aug 2016 05:55:50 CEST
