From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Meeuwissen Subject: Re: Suddenly, my timestamps get localized! Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:13:06 +0900 Message-ID: <87ehy19y6l.fsf@avasys.jp> References: <878vo95s70.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <80lis9tnkv.fsf@somewhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIdsW-00025P-0I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:05:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIdsQ-0007jz-25 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:05:03 -0400 Received: from ekc4.avasys.jp ([210.228.20.165]:55036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIdsP-0007iY-Ma for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:04:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <80lis9tnkv.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:41:52 +0200") 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@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Sebastien Vauban Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Sebastien Vauban" 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