Language of date in indicator-datetime is pulled from the Region setting, not the Language one
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Indicator Date and Time |
New
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elementary OS |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Well, this is a weird bug report(maybe a bit funny) but I thought something could be done about it...
First, the date at the time panel seems to show up not in the system language I set up (English) and shows up in Portuguese instead. Secondly, the week day is shown in the top panel with an abbreviation. Therefore, in Portuguese the work for Friday is Sexta(-feira) and it will show up as... Erm... Sex.
This would perfectly OK if the date were to be shown in Portuguese while I had the OS in that language, but the merge with the English one might not be so bright?
I literally spotted this because a German friend of mine was looking at my computer and started giggling at it.
I know this is a pretty "in the spot" issue but maybe the developer team should either put the time and date in the system language or just remove the abbreviation and use Sexta instead since I think most of the screen resolutions can handle some more letters.
Please check the screenshot attached.
The part where the indicator's language doesn't match the user's language is a real issue.
Did you change the language using the Region and Language settings in Switchboard?
Could you upload the output of "locales" in Terminal? After that, could you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales & locales", see if there is anything that seems out of place in the output, and then rebooting?