os.setlocale |
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Summary Sets the current locale to the supplied locale Prototype
Description Sets the current locale to the supplied locale. Category, which is optional, is a string which is one of: "all" (the default) "collate" "ctype" "monetory" "numeric" "time" Returns the name of the new locale, or nil if invalid.
Hint: I found that in Australia, the default in Lua was to use the USA time format (MM/DD/YY) rather than the local format (DD/MM/YY) when displaying dates with os.date. This line seemed to fix that:
According to the help file "If locale points to an empty string, the locale is the implementation-defined native environment.". Thus the empty locale string seemed take the country default. See Also ... Lua functions
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