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Reinderien
Asked: 2014-03-05 07:15:45 +0800 CST

Locale has no effect

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I've edited /etc/default/locale to look like this:

LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_CA:en"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"

Unfortunately, it seems that en_DK did nothing, because my Thunderbird date/times still look like 14-03-03 04:02 PM. So how do I get this to kick in?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    /etc/default/locale contains the system default settings, but if you have user level settings e.g. in ~/.pam_environment they take precedence.

    If you want to use en_DK.UTF-8 for a single locale category, I'd recommend that you edit your ~/.profile file and add:

    export LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"
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