Adding additional locales can be necessary to read date information in available in certain languages only.
Support for international dates
# check all available locales locale -a # check if the german locale is available cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED|grep de_DE.UTF-8 # de_DE.UTF-8 # add german locale sudo locale-gen de_DE sudo locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 # update server locale information sudo update-locale
References
1. Add Language Locale: http://askubuntu.com/questions/76013/how-do-i-add-locale-to-ubuntu-server