From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39248: format-time-string ignores user's preferred locale Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:19:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfpytfva.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4A6A9AB3-2B38-4273-89F5-F3AF633C9636@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="52089"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 39248@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Paul W. Rankin" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 18:06:17 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iufvt-000DWF-Ly for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33018 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iufvr-0008P9-Qy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iudL1-0002dG-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iudL0-0001vZ-Fy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iudL0-0001vF-CA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iudL0-0007os-73 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 39248 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 39248-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B39248.157978915329993 (code B ref 39248); Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 39248) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Jan 2020 14:19:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52018 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iudKD-0007ng-1A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50018) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iudKB-0007nU-I7 for 39248@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iudK5-0000Vg-Rj; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1243 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iudK4-0004Aw-NX; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:19:05 -0500 In-reply-to: (hello@paulwrankin.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:175162 Archived-At: > From: "Paul W. Rankin" > Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 39248@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:44:11 +1000 > > So, this works: > > (setq system-time-locale (getenv "LANG")) > (format-time-string "%x") > -> "23/01/2020" > > But in the Elisp manual: > > -- Variable: system-time-locale > This variable specifies the locale to use for formatting time > values. Changing the locale can cause messages to appear according > to the conventions of a different language. If the variable is > ‘nil’, the locale is specified by environment variables in the > usual POSIX fashion. > > So the issue appears to be instead that ^this doesn't seem to be > happening... No, having system-time-locale as nil is perfectly normal. I asked the question so we'd know whether that variable is part of the issue. It doesn't seem to be, AFAIU.