From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change language of format-date-string Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 03:41:16 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fv8z138z.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426905620 870 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2015 02:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 02:40:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 21 03:40:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YZ9Kj-0000as-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 03:40:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46443 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZ9Ki-0004GM-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:40:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:FzKIW7TpP95Kuu63P8snnqV1AF0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210955 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103236 Archived-At: Rasmus writes: > I would like to change the language that > format-date-string assumes, as my OS is not in > English for leaning purposes. When it comes to computers, there isn't a leaner language than the old Anglo-American. So that won't work anyway. If you want to learn such stuff, you are not helped by the computer, on the contrary. Remember the words of Dr. Jones, "If you want to be a good archaeologist, you gotta get out of the library." > I tried to issue (set-language-environment > "English"), but this does not seem to have > an effect. See? This is no use. Set the whole damn computer to English, then turn it off and do that other thing, then come back and do computer things (in English) which is what the computer is intended for. Some people (not you) say computers are not of any particular language, the use "symbols", the "interface is completely intuitive", etc. - this is total bullcrap. Computers are in Anglo-American and there is no way around it, nor is such a way desired. But: when you say, format-date-string, do you mean `format-time-string'? Put it this way, what would you like the `format-time-string' to output? -- underground experts united