Re: [O] How to override locale setting for time-stamp language

[Sebastien Vauban]

Karl Voit wrote:
> I am using Emacs 24.3 on different machines. With Debian GNU/Linux I
> get time-stamps like <2015-01-21 Wed>. However, with Windows 7 Pro
> (which I do not administrate), I get <2015-01-21 Mi> where "Mi"
> stands for the German "Mittwoch".
>
> What do I have to add to my configuration so that I get "Wed"
> instead of "Mi" on all of my systems, independent of system
> settings?
>
>
>
> My naïve debug session resulted in: org-insert-timestamp >
> format-time-string which is built-in and uses locale settings to
> resolve "%a" to get the abbreviated name of the day.
>
> I don't have a clue which variable holds the locale settings that is
> used for this case and I also don't have an idea if modifying this
> variable has some potential negative effects as well.

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg01046.html.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban