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I'd like the OPNsense GUI of vnstat to show dates in dd/mm/yy format, Locale "en_GB.UTF-8" would suit me nicely.   Unfortunately, my setup provides mm/dd/yy.

/usr/local/etc/vnstat.conf says:

# locale (LC_ALL) ("-" = use system locale)
Locale "-"

The terminal output of    % locale   is:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

The terminal output of: vnstat -d
does provide dates in dd/mm/yy format, as expected.

So... it appears that OPNsense GUI has its own opinion of Locale but where is this stored ?

For good measure, I edit'd /usr/local/etc/vnstat.conf such that:

# locale (LC_ALL) ("-" = use system locale)
Locale "en_GB.UTF-8"

... and the GUI output of vnstat changes to dd/mm/yy format.   Of course, that doesn't work for long, getting re-written with reboots, updates and so on.

What am I missing ?   How can I get the GUI display of vnstat to use dd/mm/yy ?

Currently running OPNsense 23.1.5_4-amd64 with plugin os-speedtest-community 0.9_3

cron is scheduled to run speedtest once per day, at 20:05 in the OPNsense GUI.   Now that summertime has arrived and the timezone has moved from +0000 to +0100, cron runs an hour earlier at 19:05 according to the speedtest output.

OPNsense GUI Dashboard displays +0100 time correctly.   I've double checked tzsetup to check my timezone.   (Shell) date shows the +0100 time correctly.    Presumably cron allows for TZ ?   Or have I missed a config  :-[