I tried to set it in the environment variables on my machine (a Swedish 
Win8) but that made no difference.

On 2013-08-16 10:49, Lukas Fuernkranz wrote:
> Is your LC_TIME set to sv_SE.UTF-8?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Fredrik <fredrik@jumans.net 
> <mailto:fredrik@jumans.net>> wrote:
>
>     When I add a new timestamp by either pressing C-c . or C-c ! the
>     calendar shows up in english but when textrepresentation of the
>     date the dayname is shown in swedish.
>
>     So adding a date for a wednesday would give me <2013-08-14 on>
>
>     I just can't find how to change my language settings so I get this
>     in english instead. Any ideas?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Fredrik
>
>