Need a means to configure the culture settings from within PowerShell on Linux

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

On my Linux boxes ls -l does display date and time formats in my preferred way (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm):

PS❯  ls -l /tmp/foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sto sto 4 Aug 12  1995 /tmp/foo
PS❯  ls -l /tmp/foo --full-time
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sto sto 4 1995-08-12 23:59:59.000000000 +0200 /tmp/foo
PS❯  touch /tmp/bar
PS❯  ls -l /tmp/bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sto sto 0 May  8 16:44 /tmp/bar

whereas PowerShell seems to use the locale-imported settings:

PS❯  locale -k LC_TIME
abday="Sun;Mon;Tue;Wed;Thu;Fri;Sat"
day="Sunday;Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday"
abmon="Jan;Feb;Mar;Apr;May;Jun;Jul;Aug;Sep;Oct;Nov;Dec"
mon="January;February;March;April;May;June;July;August;September;October;November;December"
am_pm="AM;PM"
d_t_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %r %Z"
d_fmt="%m/%d/%Y"
t_fmt="%r"
t_fmt_ampm="%I:%M:%S %p"
era=
era_year=""
era_d_fmt=""
alt_digits=
era_d_t_fmt=""
era_t_fmt=""
time-era-num-entries=0
time-era-entries="S"
week-ndays=7
week-1stday=19971130
week-1stweek=1
first_weekday=1
first_workday=2
cal_direction=1
timezone=""
date_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %r %Z"
time-codeset="UTF-8"
alt_mon="January;February;March;April;May;June;July;August;September;October;November;December"
ab_alt_mon="Jan;Feb;Mar;Apr;May;Jun;Jul;Aug;Sep;Oct;Nov;Dec"
PS❯   date
Sat 08 May 2021 04:26:03 PM CEST
PS❯   (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat

AMDesignator                     : AM
Calendar                         : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
DateSeparator                    : /
FirstDayOfWeek                   : Sunday
CalendarWeekRule                 : FirstDay
FullDateTimePattern              : dddd, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss tt
LongDatePattern                  : dddd, MMMM d, yyyy
LongTimePattern                  : h:mm:ss tt
MonthDayPattern                  : MMMM d
PMDesignator                     : PM
RFC1123Pattern                   : ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'
ShortDatePattern                 : M/d/yyyy
ShortTimePattern                 : h:mm tt
SortableDateTimePattern          : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss
TimeSeparator                    : :
UniversalSortableDateTimePattern : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'
YearMonthPattern                 : MMMM yyyy
AbbreviatedDayNames              : {Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed…}
ShortestDayNames                 : {S, M, T, W…}
DayNames                         : {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday…}
AbbreviatedMonthNames            : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr…}
MonthNames                       : {January, February, March, April…}
IsReadOnly                       : True
NativeCalendarName               : Gregorian Calendar
AbbreviatedMonthGenitiveNames    : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr…}
MonthGenitiveNames               : {January, February, March, April…}
PS❯  gi /tmp/foo

        Directory: /tmp


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-----         8/12/1995  11:59 PM              4 [  foo
PS❯  gi /tmp/bar

        Directory: /tmp


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-----          5/8/2021   4:44 PM              0 [  bar

We need a way to define the culture settings within PowerShell, independently from the Linux-level locale settings.

Even something that sets those settings in a volatile way from the profile would be a first step.

This is probably related to https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3833

[arejay1]

Please unsubscribe me from powershell as I am an elderly woman and GitHub does not interest me. Regards from Raylee Heading

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