vnstat date format

[Chiny]

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 ?

[sdetroch]

For changes that will persist after reboot, you need to edit:
/usr/local/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/Vnstat/vnstat.conf

I have the following setting to get dd/mm/yyyy:

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

# date output formats for -d, -m, -t and -w
# see 'man date' for control codes
DayFormat    "%d/%m/%Y"
MonthFormat  "%m/%Y"
TopFormat    "%d/%m/%Y"

Hope this helps?

[Chiny]

Yes, that works, thanks.   The dd/mm/yyyy survived a minor point update and reboot, which is what I wanted to achieve.

Curiously though, despite the…

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# locale (LC_ALL) ("-" = use system locale)
Locale "-"
…in the templates file, OPNsense still resolutely ignores locale, giving the same problem as my first post.   It does require the Day/Month/Top format changes to get dd/mm/yyyy, which feels a bit of a kludge.

But it does work, so my problem is solved.   Thanks again for the tip re templates.