Time zone names not localized in Gnome

[Lars Ljung]

My system language is set to Swedish. When I add a location in the clock applet all time zone names shows up in English. The same is true for the time and date settings under system/administration.

The correct names seems to be available in /usr/share/locale-langpack/sv/LC_MESSAGES/timezones.mo and Evolution is able to find the Swedish names.

This is with Hardy.

[vulfgar (vulfgar)]

The same thing occur in my system.

[bjoost61 (bjorn-ostensson)]

I have also the same problem.

[Daniel Nylander (yeager)]

+1

I wonder if this BR has been filed against the wrong package. Shouldn't it be against gnome-applets?

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

This is somewhat better now (in the clock applet at least). Most timezones are in Swedish, but there is some exceptions. Some don't seem to have a Swedish translation (i.e. Africa/Asmara). But America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires does have a translation and is still not shown in Swedish.

The time zone map in the time and date settings dialog are still all in English.

If this is filed against the wrong package then please move it, I don't know enough about the Gnome internals to be sure.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

Yes, I'm still having the same problem on a fresh install of 8.10. All names are still in English in the clock applet and in the time and date settings.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

The problem is with the backends, which run all commands with "LC_ALL=C" to avoid localization issues. We need to make an exception here to get translated time zones.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Well, actually the config file is read directly, so we should take care of translations by ourselves. Not sure this has to be done in the backends or in the GUI...