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>For an English-speaking American, not much.  <SPAN
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>Information on locales and locale strings is easily (even too easily!) found on the Internet, or see <B
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>freetds.conf</TT
>.  There is a <TT
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> section, and a section for each locale.
				
				<TT
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>locales.conf</TT
> controls three settings
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><TT
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>date format</TT
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><DD
><P
>This entry will be passed (almost) literally to <CODE
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>strftime(3)</CODE
> to convert dates to strings.</P
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>For the most part, see you system documentation for <CODE
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>strftime(3)</CODE
> (<B
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>).  You will see there though that <CODE
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>strftime(3)</CODE
> has no provision for milliseconds.  The <TT
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>strftime(3)</CODE
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>Indicates to the server what character set should be used for communicating with the client.</P
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