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Asked: 2017-05-26 16:51:52 +0800 CST

How to set LC_TIME variable to en_DK while keeping en_US the system default for other variables?

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I have the system default set to en_US.UTF-8. But (among other nonsensical things) this makes Sunday (a weekend day) the first day of the week in calendars.

I want to use the LC_TIME variable from en_DK.UTF-8 while keeping the en_US.UTF-8 variables for everything else.

I have generated both en_US.UTF-8 and en_DK.UTF-8 and I used to be able to simply edit /etc/default/locale by adding the line LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8".

But this is no longer working and I have no idea why. So how can I get this working again?

Before people start telling me to hack on the en_US.UTF-8 text file (at /usr/share/i18n/locales), this doesn't work either because updates periodically reset this. I want to know what the "proper" way of configuring for this is.

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2 Answers

  1. Here is what I would do:

    1. check which locales are enabled:

      grep -v '^#' /etc/locale.gen

      You should at least get (Or something similar):

      en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

    2. Enable it if it's not and disable unnecessary locales by commenting those lines.

    3. generate locales:

      sudo locale-gen

    4. set default locales:

      sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

    5. check All important files like: .profile, .bashrc and other startup files to make sure nothing is overwriting our configurations.

    it should work.

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  2. Open ~/.profile for editing and add this line:

    export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

    On Ubuntu GNOME you may also need to run this command:

    gsettings reset org.gnome.system.locale region
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