Re: [O] Suddenly, my timestamps get localized!

[Tassilo Horn]

"Sebastien Vauban"
<address@hidden> writes:

Hi Sebastien,

>> 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.  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?

> Now, the question is: why did it change on your machine? New Emacs,
> new Cygwin (if on Windows)?

I'm on GNU/Linux and update my emacs bzr and org git checkouts about
thrice a week.  All I can say is that a week ago, timestamps where
English (or at least I didn't notice).

Bye,
Tassilo