User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2 Build Identifier: I need a UTF-8 environment for many reasons but prefer my time formats to be reported in traditional POSIX format. My locale looks like kreton@aesir ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= If I launch a program, such as pidgin, from the terminal, it displays time properly. I KNOW my locale is proper: I've rebooted with the correct environment settings in Gentoo and tested locale before running startxfce4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. export locales 2. startxfce4 3. launch a program that displays time stamps Actual Results: I get a 12 hour time format inside programs that read LC_TIME. Expected Results: I want a 24 hour time format inside programs that read LC_TIME.
Sorry, but this really has nothing to do with Xfce. Your X session just isn't inheriting your environment properly. Or, rather, it's not getting initialised with the environment you want. Both of which are out of our scope.
(In reply to comment #1) > Sorry, but this really has nothing to do with Xfce. Your X session just isn't > inheriting your environment properly. Or, rather, it's not getting initialised > with the environment you want. Both of which are out of our scope. > Instead of crass attitude how about you inform me where this belongs or maybe even moving it there? It is a bug when things are not "initialised" [sic] properly. http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfce4-session/ It is listed as an official XFCE project and not under goodies. So I apologize sincerely if this was the wrong place and accept a suggestion on where to go with this.
> Instead of crass attitude I'm not being crass. I'm merely stating a fact (I even apologised that I can't be of more help; what more do you want!). > how about you inform me where this belongs or maybe > even moving it there? I don't know offhand where you should be putting it; if I did, I would have told you. This is a configuration issue with *your system*, not with Xfce. > "initialised" [sic] en_US is not the only English dictionary out there. Deal with it. > It is listed as an official XFCE project and not under goodies. Indeed, that's correct. But xfce4-session is not the root of your problem, nor is any other Xfce component. > So I apologize sincerely if this was the wrong place and accept a suggestion > on where to go with this. I don't have a suggestion, other than to say you need to put your LC_TIME setting somewhere where X will see it, possibly in some xinitrc file somewhere, or perhaps in something that gets sourced for non-interactive shells. Sorry, not only do I not know the details about your system, but I don't exist solely to act as a repository of knowledge to satisfy your desire for free help. Drop the sense of entitlement and maybe you'll get a response more to your liking.
Moving invalid bugs to the /dev/null product.