Language issues in UM 16.04 system clock time zone settings (Clock 1.12.2)

[maro]

I am currently based in Shanghai and accordingly changed my time zone to Shanghai. My UM 16.04 system language is English. After changing the time zone to Shanghai the system clock in the upper right corner displays day and month format in Chinese characters. Why does it override my English system language? It is not a big issue but any help in getting this solved is greatly appreciated.

[maximuscore]

Same issue here, just with a different language - I live in Germany but I run Ubuntu MATE in English.
Regardless, the clock displays weekdays and months in German.

[wolfman]

Hi,

take a look here:

How to change the language settings in Ubuntu

Hi, to completely change your system language from one to another; go to Control Center > Personal > "Language Support" then click on Install/Remove languages, make sure that the only language in the list is the one you want, example: English. Take the tick out of any unwanted languages and leave only one tick in English!!. This is my own guide using German as my example. Open language support in the Systems Settings menu and click on "Install/Remove Languages" then put a tick in the box for …

[maximuscore]

Perfect - thanks a lot

[wolfman]

Are you also okay now @maro?.

@maximuscore is happy by the look of things!.

[maro]

Thanks @wolfman and @maximuscore. Problem is solved at my laptop too. I changed the Regional Formats because I need to have different languages installed.