Language of date in indicator-datetime is pulled from the Region setting, not the Language one

[Joel Almeida]

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.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

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?

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

Now that I check it some more, I don't think the steps I provided would solve the issue, since there are separate settings for system language and date/numbers. Could you check if switching the date/numbers preference to United States changes the language of the date-indicator?

[Joel Almeida (joelalmeidaptg)]

I just checked the language settings and changed the "Numbers and dates" to United States and that fixed it. The thing is I have two computers with Freya and in both I selected English in the installation process and in both the date format came out in Portuguese after installing. It's most likely due to me clicking "Lisbon" in the map thingy during installation. I believe something should be changed about this process, my region settings should somehow adapt to my chosen language in the setup.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

The problem is that the date/number settings changes stuff related culturally to the place selected. For example: currency, if numbers use comma or point as a decimal separator, and so on. If that is the issue, then it won't likely be changed in the installer, since it makes sense that it is this way.

On another hand, the possibility of having indicator-datetime display date based on the Language locale and not on the Region one should be explored.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

Now that I check it out, indicator-datetime is developed by Ubuntu, not by elementary.