Hardy upgrade lost UK short date format

**Terrycymru** · April 25th, 2008

After upgrading to Hardy I have lost the UK short date format DDMMYYYY and now have the US format MMDDYYYY across all applications.

I have checked etc/environment and it shows the correct line:
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

How can I get the UK format back?

Later: I've also tried making a change in System>Administration>Language Support which is set by default to English (United States). I can select English (United Kingdom) but it will not save the setting. I don't know if this has any relevance to the date format problem.

**Terrycymru** · April 26th, 2008

Bump.

**Terrycymru** · April 27th, 2008

I have reported problem as bug #222570.

**bagvian** · August 28th, 2008

Hello there,
It seems that I have got the same problem than you after installing a 8.04 from scratch.
Did you manage to find a solution?
Cheers, Bagvian

**Terrycymru** · August 28th, 2008

Originally Posted by bagvian

Hello there,
It seems that I have got the same problem than you after installing a 8.04 from scratch.
Did you manage to find a solution?
Cheers, Bagvian

Hi Bagvian, I've had to fix a number of issues relating to locale so I am not sure what fixed what. Try this:

1. Logout
2. On login screen click on Options (on bottom left of screen)
3. Select Language
4. Log back in and hopefully it will be saved

Please post back here if it solves your problem.

**seadart** · August 28th, 2008

I had a similar problem but with an original load of 8.0.4 - This solved it - thanks!

**bagvian** · September 1st, 2008

Hi,
I first re-installed the language-pack-en as well as language-pack-en-base through synaptic.
Nothing changed!
I then tried what was suggested by Terrycymru:
1. Logout
2. On login screen click on Options
3. Select Language (I selected English UK)
4. Log back in
Next, it only asks you whether you want to use this language only for this session.
I then launched Thunderbird and this time dates were displayed properly!
Thanks everybody,
Bagvian

**tkking** · October 27th, 2008

Same problem here on a fresh install of 8.04. Sorted now thanks to this thread.

**Benchrest** · October 31st, 2008

I am in the US and after installing 8.04 I had the wrong date format on the desktop and all applications. I found I had mistakingly chose English America Canada. I probably selected the wrong location on the map. Anyhow I found going to System/Administration/Language Support it showed I was English Canadian. I changed it to English US and rebooted.