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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Dateformat

The dateformat option specifies the format you want to use to display dates.

The AIX, AIX 5L, Solaris, and HP-UX clients support locales other than English that describe every user interface that varies with location or language. Solaris and HP-UX clients only support English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese locale information. The default directories for system-supplied locales are as follows:

The backup-archive and administrative clients obtain format information from the locale definition in effect at the time you start the client. Consult the documentation on your local system for details about setting up your locale definition.

Notes:

  1. This dateformat option does not affect the Web client. The Web client uses the date format for the locale that the browser is running in. If the browser is not running in a locale that Tivoli Storage Manager supports, the Web client uses the date format for American English.

  2. When you change the date format and use the schedlogretention option to prune the schedule log, Tivoli Storage Manager removes all entries in the schedule log with a different date format when pruning the log. When you change the date format and use the errorlogretention option to prune the error log, Tivoli Storage Manager removes all entries in the error log with a different date when pruning the log. When changing the date format, copy the schedule log and error log if you want to preserve log entries that contain a different date format.

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all UNIX clients.

Options File

Place this option in the client user options file dsm.opt.

Syntax

>>-DATEformat- format_number-----------------------------------><
 
 

Parameters

format_number
Displays the date using one of the following formats. Select the number that corresponds to the date format you want to use:

0
Use the locale-specified date format. For AIX, AIX 5L, HP-UX, SGI, and Solaris: This is the default if the locale-specified date format consists of digits and separator characters.

1
MM/DD/YYYY (This is the default)

For AIX, AIX 5L, HP-UX, SGI, and Solaris: This is the default if the locale-specified date format consists of anything but digits and separator characters.

2
DD-MM-YYYY

3
YYYY-MM-DD

4
DD.MM.YYYY

5
YYYY.MM.DD

For AIX, AIX 5L, HP-UX, SGI, and Solaris: To set a particular date format, edit the source file for your locale and modify the d_fmt line to support your needs. Whatever date format you select applies both to output and to input; however, the input year can be either 2 or 4 digits.

"%m/%d/%y"
Displays the date in the form MM/DD/YY
"%d.%m.%Y"
Displays the date in the form DD.MM.YYYY

Examples

Options file:
dateformat 3

Command line:
-date=4

This option is valid on the initial command line and in interactive mode. If you use this option in interactive mode, it remains in effect for the entire interactive session or until you enter another dateformat option.


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