From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Suddenly, my timestamps get localized! Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:37:00 +0200 Message-ID: <80d3dltl0z.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <878vo95s70.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <80lis9tnkv.fsf@somewhere.org> <874nyx5pwv.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 Hi Tassilo, Tassilo Horn wrote: > "Sebastien Vauban" writes: > >>> 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 > > Ok, that does the trick. It was nil before. Good to know! > And > > (setq system-time-locale (getenv "LANG")) > > resulting in "en_US.utf8" seems to work as well. What did not work for > you in the agenda? When I wrote (months ago) "did not work", I meant: I got French weekdays in my agenda ("Lun." for Monday, "Mar.", "Mer.", etc. -- even on 4 characters). I could retry... but I don't have UTF8 specified in my LANG var. I should do add it, I guess. Best regards, Seb PS- I'm on Windows XP, with a win32 binary from FSF. -- Sebastien Vauban