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After wondering about it and trying several options I have finally managed to find and edit the date and time formats used by the iPhone today. |
After wondering about it and trying several options I have finally managed to find and edit the date and time formats used by the iPhone today. |
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| − | They are saved in plist file in /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/DateFormats.plist |
+ | They are saved in a plist file in /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/DateFormats.plist |
| − | + | Copy this file to your PC or MAC, edit the formats in the file and copy back :-) |
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Unfortunately the file is in the binary plist format, so you may need to use a utility such as plutil to convert it to text, edit and then convert back to binary. |
Unfortunately the file is in the binary plist format, so you may need to use a utility such as plutil to convert it to text, edit and then convert back to binary. |
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| − | A perl based version of plutil can be found |
+ | A perl based version of plutil can be found [http://scw.us/iPhone/plutil/ here]. This is a dos file so for use on Linux you have to first convert it ti *nix format. |
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| + | You can also change the way the calendar us displayed by changing the locale property in the same file. |
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Revision as of 06:58, 1 March 2011
After wondering about it and trying several options I have finally managed to find and edit the date and time formats used by the iPhone today.
They are saved in a plist file in /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/DateFormats.plist
Copy this file to your PC or MAC, edit the formats in the file and copy back :-)
Unfortunately the file is in the binary plist format, so you may need to use a utility such as plutil to convert it to text, edit and then convert back to binary. A perl based version of plutil can be found here. This is a dos file so for use on Linux you have to first convert it ti *nix format.
You can also change the way the calendar us displayed by changing the locale property in the same file.
