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Set date in English but leave region untouched

tn flag

I am living in Belgium, Flanders and my setup of Ubuntu is in English. Though, my date and days are in Dutch. Is there a way to set it in English also, but leave my region untouched?

Thanks!

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al flag

That's pretty easy to do! First, you gotta open a terminal and type locale. There will be a screen that displays a bunch of language related information. Important is the variable LC_TIME. You can take the following command to change it to the US date format:

sudo update-locale LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

Then log out and in again and everything should be fine!

Hope that helped!

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tn flag
Almost! When I log off or restart my PC it is in English, but the moment I login it is in Dutch again. If I check /etc/default/locale, LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8". So, that is okay. But I think there is also a local file in my user profile I will try to perform a locate in a terminal to find an other config file as well.
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tn flag
I had to change it in Settings as well. So I put in en_GB as we in Europe use the metric system and the DDMMYY format But issue is solved. Thanks for shining your light on this ;-) !
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