[ubuntu-studio-users] Date formats gone wrong in 18.04

[David King]

I managed to fix it.

After doing  locale | grep LC_TIME

it showed the answer
LC_TIME=C.UTF-8

previously it had been

LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

In the C locale file, it had US settings, so I copied en_GB over it, and 
after doing sudo locale-gen and logging out and logging in again, it was 
all back to how it should be.


David King




On 06/05/2019 10:11, David King wrote:
> The upgrade was from within Ubuntu Studio 16.04. The /home partition 
> is separate to the / partition of the OS.
>
> The other weird thing to happen since upgrading is the loss of all 
> desktop icons. In the Desktop folder, the icons are there, but on the 
> actual desktop.
>
> David King
>
>
>>
>> On 5/3/19 11:19 AM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 7:49 AM, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Studio 16.04 to 18.04. Some things 
>>>> got reset and need changing back to how I want.
>>>>
>>>> I want the calendar to start on Sunday, and managed to get that 
>>>> done by editing en_GB locale file, making first weekday = 1.
>>>>
>>>> But, now in all other programs, the date formats are in US format, 
>>>> e.g. May 03, 2019; but I want them back to the UK format of 3 May 
>>>> 2019.
>>>>
>>>> Despite the en_GB locale file seeming to have all the right 
>>>> settings, I am now stuck with dates in US format, which is hard to 
>>>> read, e.g. 05/03/19 -- is that 5th of March or 3rd of May?
>>>>
>>>> So how can I get it have Sunday as first day of week, and all date 
>>>> formats in UK format (as it all was back in 16.04)?
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to answer this, but I can tell you that there was 
>>> nothing substantially modified between 16.04 and 18.04 in terms of 
>>> configuration, so there might be a configuration discrepency in your 
>>> ~/.config folder.
>>>
>>> My recommendation to you is to ask this question on AskUbuntu 
>>> (askubuntu.com) to get as many eyeballs as possible on this. There's 
>>> a good chance that somebody ran into the same issue and figure it 
>>> out. AskUbuntu is for all flavors of Ubuntu, including Ubuntu Studio 
>>> and Xubuntu, which are the two that use Xfce by default.
>>>
>>> There's also a good chance someone in this mailing list figures it 
>>> out too!
>>>
>>> I did, however, see that you posted this same question in the 
>>> Facebook group, and since that's not a technical support forum but 
>>> rather a collaboration and artistic forum, I will be closing it for 
>>> comments.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Erich
>>> ----
>>> Erich Eickmeyer
>>> Council Chair
>>> Ubuntu Studio
>>>
>>> ubuntustudio.org
>>>
>>>
>
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