Dates do not respect locale setting

[Vincent]

On my desktop, my system locale is set to en (GB), even though my timezone is Amsterdam/The Netherlands. Now, as can be seen in the screenshot, the header tabs and options are in English (as they should be), but the month name is Dutch ("maart"), and the week days are as well ("ma di wo do vr za zo"), while they should be in English too.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Weird, the month names should be taken from the LC_MESSAGES locale category, which is set by the language. We'll need to investigate how Qt handles month localization.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Could you give us the output of the 'locale' command on your device?

You can do it from your PC and a device connected via USB by opening a terminal on the PC and running:

adb shell locale

[David Planella (dpm)]

Ah, I just noticed you meant on your desktop. In any case, can you open a terminal and run this command:

locale

and then paste the output on a comment? Thanks!

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Desktop it is :)

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Note: I guess my Bug #1291508 might be relevant as well then.

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[Vincent (vinnl)]

Oh crap, I left it at Incomplete. In any case, it is still an issue...

[David Planella (dpm)]

Hi Vincent,

Could you try to set LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8? I'm guessing that will make the format work as you expect.

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Hmm, odd. I now see that indicator-datetime does the same. Indeed, running it with LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 uses English names. I suppose this also means it does not use the Dutch date notation, <day>/<month>/<year>? I guess there isn't really a way around that...