Date is shown in locality language instead of system language

[Vincent]

Although I live in the Netherlands, I have my computer configured to use English as its language. However, the weather app shows dates in Dutch.

Output of the locale command:

$ 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=

[Martin Borho (martin-borho)]

Does this happen only happens on the desktop or on a device too?

Attaching a screenshot would be great, because I can't figuring out exactly what you meant at the moment...sorry.

Cheers
Martin

[Vincent (vinnl)]

This is on the desktop - not sure about the device as I have none. A screenshot is attached. As you can see, as date it says "Vrijdag, 21 maart" whereas the toolbar at the bottom correctly uses English terms ("Refresh", "Edit", "Settings").

[Martin Borho (martin-borho)]

Thanks, I will investigate!

[David Planella (dpm)]

Hi Vincent,

In order to be able to debug this, could you please:

1. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+t
2. Type the following command:

locale

3. Edit the original bug description and paste the output of the command (alternatively, you can paste the output in a comment)

Thanks!

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Done! See above, or here:

$ 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=

[David Planella (dpm)]

Looking at the output, it seems it's simply because you've got LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8, and my guess is that the time format is taken from there. If you set LC_TIME to en_GB.UTF-8, I'm guessing it should 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...