[Bug 1717769] Re: day of week in german despite i configured the system in english

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Well, it's a bug, or not. Personally I think it is, and a couple of
years ago I spent a lot of time to fix it, but gave up.

The weekday and month names are fetched from the locale defined for
"regional formats", and they are hardcoded.

There is a simple workaround, though. Open the ~/.profile file for
editing and add this line:

export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

At next login you'll hopefully see the weekday and month in English.

** Changed in: localechooser (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Opinion

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Title:
  day of week in german despite i configured the system in english

Status in localechooser package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Description
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  I chose the english language and live in Belgium. So I chose Brussels for the Time Zone, and the Belgian keymap.

  The Ubuntu date & time applet, in the top bar of the Ubuntu desktop
  interface shows me "Son HH:MM", Son standing for "Sonntag" which is
  german. I don't get why there is german in my interface since I
  configured this language nowhere but English.

  Expected Behavior
  ------------------
  Having the day of week in English.

  My configuration to reproduce the problem
  -----------------------------------------
  Here is the region & language configuration as seen in the settings pannel:
  Language: English (United States)
  Formats : Belgien
  Input Sources: Belgian

  In the "Date & Time" settings:
  Time Zone: CEST (Brussels, Belgium)

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