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From: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suddenly, my timestamps get localized!
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:13:06 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehy19y6l.fsf@avasys.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80lis9tnkv.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:41:52 +0200")

"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> Hi Tassilo,
>
> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> when I insert a new timestame, I now get
>>
>>   <2011-10-25 Di>
>>
>> while it used to be <2011-10-25 Tue> until very recently.  (Di is
>> Dienstag which is German for Tuesday).  I've briefly grepped the org
>> source code, but I cannot see any localization there.
>>
>> What's going on?  I even have no glue how org/emacs (correctly) guesses
>> that I'm German.  My locale is en_US.UTF-8...
>
> Found in my .emacs:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>       ;; system locale to use for formatting time values (e.g., timestamps in
>       ;; Org mode files)
>       (setq system-time-locale "C")
>       ;; "en_US.utf8" did not work for the weekday in the agenda!
> #+end_src
>
> Now, the question is: why did it change on your machine? New Emacs, new Cygwin
> (if on Windows)? See discussion
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-09/msg00006.html on Cygwin (though I don't
> know what to understand from it...).

Or updated localisation catalogs.

I've also put (setq system-time-locale "C") in my .emacs-en because that
is the only sane settings if you move your org-files between accounts in
any kind of way.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2           FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
FSF Associate Member #1962               Help support software freedom
                 http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-25 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25  9:36 Suddenly, my timestamps get localized! Tassilo Horn
2011-10-25  9:41 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-10-25 10:13   ` Olaf Meeuwissen [this message]
2011-10-25 10:25   ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-25 10:37     ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-10-25 10:39       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-27  7:46       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-10-27  8:40         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-27  9:34           ` Sebastien Vauban

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