Hi, I’m norwegian and I would like to change the date format in the upper right corner ( taskbar ) to dd/mm/yyyy. I have checked in locale.conf that norwegian is selected in all locale settings including LC_TIME, but I still have the american date format, so how do I change it ?
Found this topic on mint forum, that explains how (it is an old one though), but you might have to install the dconf-editor.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=371286
Not using Mate so I can’t say this for sure but there seems to be a user guide in extra, maybe that will give some pointers
norwegian? you sure? what norwegian? I’m guessing it would be nn_NO.UTF-8 right?
Hi @Olsby1 ,
Right-click to panel > +Add to Panel… > Command
and modify Command like this
date +%d/%m/%Y
Interval should be increased a bit and finally move to the corner
Optinally modify Application Font size in Look and Feel > Appearance
Of course you can uncheck date at clock/calendar applet.
Edit: No need to over-engineer things like this IMO.
This achieves what I want, thank you 
Yes, I’m pretty sure I’m norwegian. It would be nb_NO.UTF-8 as nb ( norwegian bokmål ) is the most common format. “eso” provided the solution for my issue. As a curiosity it seems that the MATE desktop overrides settings made in the OS, I read this in several forums of other distros. in the Arch forum this has also been asked but with no solution. So maybe this thread will show useful to others too.
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“Pretty sure” isn’t good enough for me. You might be Egyptian. Or possibly Canadian.
my question was if you configured it correctly… What’s the purpose of twisting my words? it’s obvious what I meant.
I have checked in locale.conf that norwegian is selected in all locale settings
was not specific enough to exclude the likely culprit of user error, you didn’t show how it’s actually configured.
/etc/locale/gen contains
#nb_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
#nb_NO ISO-8859-1
#nn_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
#nn_NO ISO-8859-1
#se_NO UTF-8
These are the potential options you can use. If locale.conf is correctly configured, your desktop environment is likely overriding it, it’s the only likely explanation.
I’m sure you can take a light joke as long as the issue at hand is kept serious..though I may not actually have been very clear in that it was a joke. It was though, I wasn’t attacking you.
And yes, it does seem, like already mentioned, that MATE is overriding the locale settings and is lacking a full support for nordic locales, hence the date setup being American instead of European. I also vaguely remember from a previous install that this wasn’t an issue in KDE EOS.
yeah it depends on the environment, it’s honestly a bad design, environment should just yield to system locale, at least by default. Most environments I think do.