From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040518 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: The dates in /var/log/yum.log are in dd/dd/dddd (where d is a digit) format. Unfortunately yum does not appear to have localised this date and consequently the dates look a little strange for a machine in the UK. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.0.7-1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. less /var/log/yum.log Actual Results: ... 06/04/04 04:12:59 Updated: cups 1:1.1.20-11.1.i386 06/05/04 04:58:16 Updated: krb5-libs 1.3.3-7.i386 06/08/04 10:02:08 Updated: jpackage-utils 1.5.38-1jpp.noarch (the middle "month" digits are changing too fast) Expected Results: Jun 4 04:12:59 Updated: cups 1:1.1.20-11.1.i386 Jun 5 04:58:16 Updated: krb5-libs 1.3.3-7.i386 Jun 8 10:02:08 Updated: jpackage-utils 1.5.38-1jpp.noarch Although lacking the year, this format is typical of other log files and is unambiguous so you do not need to match the locale etc.
This is reportedly fixed in yum CVS, will be rolled into the Red Hat package on next release.