From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Vauban Subject: Re: How to override locale setting for time-stamp language Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:22:32 +0100 Message-ID: <86ppa71ayf.fsf@example.com> References: <2015-01-21T17-42-38@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Karl Voit wrote: > I am using Emacs 24.3 on different machines. With Debian GNU/Linux I > get time-stamps like <2015-01-21 Wed>. However, with Windows 7 Pro > (which I do not administrate), I get <2015-01-21 Mi> where "Mi" > stands for the German "Mittwoch". > > What do I have to add to my configuration so that I get "Wed" > instead of "Mi" on all of my systems, independent of system > settings? > > > > My na=C3=AFve debug session resulted in: org-insert-timestamp > > format-time-string which is built-in and uses locale settings to > resolve "%a" to get the abbreviated name of the day. > > I don't have a clue which variable holds the locale settings that is > used for this case and I also don't have an idea if modifying this > variable has some potential negative effects as well. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg01046.html. Best regards, Seb --=20 Sebastien Vauban