Score:2

Ubuntu

Kubuntu Wrong Date Locale

conferza

7/9/24, 3:18 PM

Kubuntu 23.04

Issue: the date in the taskbar and sometimes in some places in the settings is displayed in the wrong locale. I live in Georgia (not the US state). I tried many many times to modify the locale file located in /etc/default. I did it by running sudo nano locale while in that folder. I don't think I made a mistake somewhere, because currently locale looks like this:

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="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"

Nonetheless, echo $LC_TIME still returns ka_GE.UTF-8 for some reason.

I also tried the following:

sudo update-locale LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
sudo localectl set-locale LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 (I just copied the command I found, I don't know if "utf8" without the hyphen is a typo or not)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and then updated the en_US.UTF-8 or whatever, I don't know

UPDATE: output of locale

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ka_GE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:03 PM

Do you possibly have a `~/.pam_environment` file? If you have, you can delete it since you are using Kubuntu. (It was probably created when you used some other Ubuntu flavor.)

conferza

7/9/24, 4:07 PM

Nope, `No such file or directory`. This was a clean install, Kubuntu straight away.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:10 PM

Hmm.. Maybe the KDE settings can explain it: *Settings -> System Settings -> Regional Settings -> Region & Language*

conferza

7/9/24, 4:11 PM

It says "American English" everywhere.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:13 PM

Then I still think you have a `~/.pam_environment` file. The `~` means your `$HOME` directory, and the dot makes the file "hidden".

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:15 PM

Btw, did you relogin after having changed `/etc/default/locale`?

conferza

7/9/24, 4:16 PM

I'll look for it. By the way, while trying to locate this `.pam_environment` folder, I ran `ls -l` and months are displayed in Georgian there, which is, again, odd.

conferza

7/9/24, 4:17 PM

Yes, I did relogin, restart and whatnot.

conferza

7/9/24, 4:18 PM

Wow, you were right! There is a `.pam_environment` folder. I see it now after I ran `ls -a`. How to delete it?

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:19 PM

It's not a folder, it's a file. `rm ~/.pam_environment`

conferza

7/9/24, 4:22 PM

Absolutely amazing, it worked! If you write an answer instead of the comment, I'll make it accepted as the best, if you want.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:26 PM

I suggest that you write the answer — it's perfectly fine to answer your own question. ;) And if you do, please include the background, i.e. that you previously used some other desktop environment and then switched to Kubuntu. Because that's the case, isn't it?

conferza

7/9/24, 4:30 PM

If that's the only possible reason that file was present, then, I guess, that is the case. Although, again, I don't remember anything else, I thought what I did was a "clean install".

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/9/24, 4:34 PM

If it was a clean Kubuntu install, the presence of that file is a mystery. But well, if you installed a tool named *Language Support* and made changes via that tool, it would explain it. *Language Support* is not included in Kubuntu, since it does not play well with the KDE way to handle regional settings.

Score:1

Ubuntu

conferza

7/9/24, 4:33 PM

The problem turned out to be the .pam_environment file, located in the $HOME directory (~/.pam_environment). Apparently, that file was probably created when I used some other Ubuntu flavor and then switched to Kubuntu.

Run the following command to remove it:

rm ~/.pam_environment

Make sure to relogin after that.

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