Hi, First of all I'd like to say that I find orgmode great. I'd been looking for a tool like this for years. I have a french version of windows so when I set a timestamp on an item with C-c >, I get the timestamp in french. I'd like to get it in english. I've tried setting the language environment to english through the menu (options/mule/set language environment) but it makes no difference. In a previous mail of this mailing list ( http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg03064.html), it is mentioned that this depends on the variable system-time-locale. How can I set system-time-locale to english permanently in my emacs init file? ( I'm a newbie to emacs) I've tried the following, but it doesnt work: (set-locale-environment English) (system-time-locale English) Thanks very much.