Date format in GNOME 40 panel clock

[Bret Busby]

On 11/05/2021, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 9:42 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>> On 11/5/21 1:50 am, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:23 PM Frank Vanoni
>>> <mailinglist at linuxista.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 12:18 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using the right locale?
>>>>
>>>> Yes! Time and date are displayed correctly in any application
>>>> (Nautilus, Evolution, Calendar, etc.).
>>>>
>>>> It's just the panel clock on the top that ignores the locales.
>>>
>>> I have "United Kingdom" selected in the "Formats" section of
>>> "Region and Language", and the date that's displayed in the top
>>> bar is in UK format.
>>>
>>> If I set "LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8" in "/etc/environment", the date
>>> that's displayed in the top bar is in US format.
>>>
>>> If I unset "LC_TIME" in "/etc/environment" and select "United
>>> States" in the "Formats" section of "Region and Language", the
>>> date that's displayed in the top bar is in US format.
>>
>> Tue May 11 03:34:46 bret at bret-Aspire-5750G:~$cat /etc/environment
>> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin"
>> Tue May 11 03:35:00 bret at bret-Aspire-5750G:~$
>>
>> My /etc/environment appears to not include that variable.
>
> If you'd rather not add it to "/etc/environment", you can add it to
> "/etc/default/locale". Both are used by "pam_env.so", in that order,
> in Ubuntu's pam stack.
>

So, what happens when the OS apparently ignorers the settings?

"
Tue May 18 04:10:23 bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Tue May 18 04:10:31 bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$
"

LC_TIME shows as being
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"

The date format as shown in the prompt, is USA.

How do I get non-USA date format?


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