Lock screen day/time display does not honor locale

Bug #1287793 reported by Ryan Finnie
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gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The new display of the day and time on the lock screen in trusty is nice, but it shows e.g. "Tue 16:26" (note 24-hour clock). This format should honor the user's locale, i.e. my time applet displays "Tue Mar 4 4:26 PM".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-13.33-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 4 16:25:52 2014
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: 1: AppId = gedit, Flags = 1, Reason = There are unsaved documents
GsettingsGnomeSession:
 org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'ubuntu'
 org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 1800
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-14 (628 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-06 (26 days ago)

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Ryan Finnie (fo0bar) wrote :
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Mike Baker (odorikakeru) wrote :

It gets even more confusing for me when I have my locale set to the UK, but my time-zone is Japan, so I end up with "金曜日, 08 3月" for today's date. In other words, it's Japanese, but with the UK spacing and ordering of weekday-date-month (instead of month-date-weekday, with no commas or spaces). This just ends up confusing everyone.

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