Setting correct location

[lawksalawdy]

Hello,

First of all - thanks for GhostBSD, a very impressive implementation of FreeBSD. I have just installed GhostBSD 20.8.4 FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE amd64 with XFCE. All very smooth for a new install but I have a problem with apps like Thunderbird and KMYMoney showing dates in MM/DD/YYYY format but in my country we use DD/MM/YYYY.

Date correctly shows "Sun Oct 25 11:14:57 AEDT 2020" but locale shows:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

All should show "=en_AU.UTF-8"

I am unfamiliar with OpenRC and would appreciate some guidance in implementing the correct locale settings.

Thanks,

Ron Chambers
Melbourne, Australia

[slughorn]

It seems that not all addons are available for this version of thunderbird. It is to new.

[slughorn]

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system.

If you like to know something about OpenRC read: https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/OpenRC.

[lawksalawdy]

Thanks for responding slughorn.

I did read that section of the GhostBSD documentation but are still no closer to fixing this issue. I have tried changing the various .profile and login.conf files and then doing the "cap_mkdb" on the appropriate file but without changing success in changing the locale. It is system wide and affects all date displays including those in Thunar and PCMANFM. My theory is still that OpenRC configuration is the root cause but a solution has not yet revealed itself. Guess I will just have to live with it until I crack it.

Ron

[mapsware]

Try changing the LANG variable in ~/.profile. It work for me

In my case LANG variable was in the last line

[lawksalawdy]

Thanks for responding mapsware.

I tried what you suggest plus changing .login_conf and running cap_mkdb but still no success with either .profile or .login. My Timezone is correct and clock is running OK so I guess I will just live with the way each of the apps - e.g. Caja - displays dates. Caja at least allows for different date formats in preferences but PCMANFM seems not to.

Ron

[mapsware]

Maybe you forgot to export the variable, let us know the output of locale and the content of your ~/.profile

I am in Mexico, searching the possible locale config for my country

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user@host ~% locale -a | grep MX
es_MX.ISO8859-1
es_MX.UTF-8

In mi ~/.profile I have

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CHARSET=UTF-8; export CHARSET
LANG=es_MX.UTF-8; export LANG

I accomplish my locale configuration

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user@host~% locale
LANG=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=