Wrong Time Suffixes in Kiswahili

[Stefano Mtangoo]

Ubuntu tried to report things according to location and that is good. However, in case of time, it report it wrongly
For example 12h00 is noon and 16h00 is evening. Ubuntu report them both as noon (Alasiri) which is incorrect. Here is a correct list to the best of my understanding (Being a Guy from East Africa and Tanzania particularly the land of Kiswahili :))

I have tried to find best explanation in English

 03:00am- 06:59am Alfajiri (Early in the morning)
07:00am-11-59am- Asubuhi (Morning)
12:00pm- 12:59 Alasiri (Noon)
01:00pm-3:00pm - Mchana (Afternoon)
04:00pm-06:59pm- Jioni (Evening)
07:00pm-11:59pm- Usiku (Night)
12:00am-2:59am - Usiku wa Manane (Late Night)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Stefano, thanks for that list, but where does Ubuntu use any of those words? As far as I know, indicator-datetime displays just times. It doesn't make any judgements about whether it's afternoon vs. evening vs. night.

Could you perhaps attach a screenshot of the problem?

[Stefano Mtangoo (mtangoo)]

Hi Matt,
Sorry for late reply. Somehow I could not receive email notifying of reply.
Here is a screenshot of what am talking about!

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Well, that's weird. This seems like a translation error, with "AM" and "PM" being translated imprecisely. But <https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/indicator-datetime/+pots/indicator-datetime> doesn't list Kiswahili (or Swahili, or Bantu) at all.

Could you please type "locale" (without quotes) in a terminal, copy and paste the output here?

[Stefano Mtangoo (mtangoo)]

Hi Matt, here it is
$ locale

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=sw_TZ
LC_TIME=sw_TZ
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=sw_TZ
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=sw_TZ
LC_NAME=sw_TZ
LC_ADDRESS=sw_TZ
LC_TELEPHONE=sw_TZ
LC_MEASUREMENT=sw_TZ
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sw_TZ
LC_ALL=

[Stefano Mtangoo (mtangoo)]

BTW its there and its mentioned as Swahili (an error that have gone for ages. Swahili is strange name given to Kiswahili)