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I try to set the time locale to "C" in my config via (setq system-time-locale "C"). However, when using the emacs --daemon, it is not set properly and I end up with non-english date formats and weekday abbreviations when the system locale is different.

How can I set the time locale when using the daemon?

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  • I can reproduce this, setting system-time-locale in the init file. The variable holds that value I assigned, but (format-time-string "%c") behaves as if it were still nil. Curious.
    – phils
    Aug 17, 2020 at 6:23
  • In fact the custom setting is respected when the daemon starts, but not for client frames. So it's behaving somewhat like a terminal-local variable -- except it's not documented as such, and on inspection the variable indicates the custom value in the new frames.
    – phils
    Aug 17, 2020 at 6:28
  • It looks to me as if the lisp variable isn't used directly. There are internal C functions which read the lisp variable and use that to set the real value, so my guess is that internally the real value actually is terminal-local in effect, and that synchronize_system_time_locale or similar is not being called to set that for new client frames. It sounds like a bug to me. M-x report-emacs-bug
    – phils
    Aug 17, 2020 at 6:32
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    Thanks for the confirmation and the deep dive into what might be wrong. I'll file a bug report and report back, once I hear anything.
    – loki
    Aug 18, 2020 at 6:22
  • Any update? I use org-journal in two locales and its causing havoc not having a common emacs date format.
    – RichieHH
    Mar 3, 2021 at 8:38

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