Date format in GNOME 40 panel clock

[Bret Busby]

On 11/5/21 1:50 am, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:23 PM Frank Vanoni
> <mailinglist at linuxista.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 12:18 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you using the right locale?
>>
>> Yes! Time and date are displayed correctly in any application
>> (Nautilus, Evolution, Calendar, etc.).
>>
>> It's just the panel clock on the top that ignores the locales.
> 
> I have "United Kingdom" selected in the "Formats" section of "Region
> and Language", and the date that's displayed in the top bar is in UK
> format.
> 
> If I set "LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8" in "/etc/environment", the date that's
> displayed in the top bar is in US format.
> 
> If I unset "LC_TIME" in "/etc/environment" and select "United States"
> in the "Formats" section of "Region and Language", the date that's
> displayed in the top bar is in US format.
> 

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Tue May 11 03:34:46 bret at bret-Aspire-5750G:~$cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin"
Tue May 11 03:35:00 bret at bret-Aspire-5750G:~$
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My /etc/environment appears to not include that variable.

Running UbuntuMATE 21.04 .

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Bret Busby
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