Any way to seperate date format and currency?

[_rb]

16.04 clean install. My system language is set to UK English and my timezone is Berlin (GMT+1)

Everything seems fine except Wednesday appears as Mittwoch in the calendar applet and also on the command line...

If I change regional format to UK, I lose the relevant currency (Euro) and number format for my location, DE.

Short of campaigning for the UK to join the Euro, does anyone know of a means of changing the language date format while leaving the currency or vice versa?

Thanks,

rb

[wolfman]

Hi @_rb,

all is explained 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 f…

[_rb]

Thanks but not quite what I asked.

I want my system language to be English, my TZ to be Berlin and my currency settings to be Euro. That’s how I currently have it set up.

Unfortunately because of how the regional settings are tied together this means my calendar shows the days/months auf Deutsch.

Not the end of the world, but it means I have to tweak one or two scripts which depend on parsing out the day of the week.

rb

[wolfman]

Did you read this section of the guide?:

“Change language when you have more than one installed system language:”

[_rb]

Heh heh…no!

Funnily enough, I’ve got /etc/default/locale open in a terminal as I write.

Thanks.

[wolfman]

Is it solved now?.

[_rb]

Indeed it is!

I knew the regional settings had to be atomised somewhere…first time I’ve needed them. Your guide is very informative.

Thanks again.