[Bug 306591] [NEW] Locale settings not respected in GNOME session

[Andrew Conkling]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome

(Sorry about the package, not sure if this would be gnome-settings-
daemon or something else?)

Originally posted on the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6287235.

I want to manually control my LC_TIME settings independent of my LANG,
so I...

1. Added 'export LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"' (sans quotes) to my ~/.bashrc and my ~/.zshrc. (I use ZSH as my shell, but it didn't work if I switched to Bash either.)
2. Start an application from GNOME Terminal or Run (e.g. `zenity --calendar`, `date`): locale setting is used.
3. Start an application from the GNOME Panel, look at the Panel's date applet, etc.: locale setting is not used.

Workaround: append 'LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"' (sans quotes) to
/etc/environment, and the setting is used by all applications, no matter
how they are launched. (Thanks to Brucevdk on the forum for the tip!)

So it would seem that user-set locale settings are not being picked up
by GNOME properly.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with GNOME 2.24 (gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3).
(This is possibly related to bug 68938, but that's old and closed, so I'm creating this new one rather than resurrecting that one.)

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Locale settings not respected in GNOME session
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