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Clock uses Afar or Qafar language rather than the locale setting for English....
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RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Component:
clock-plugin

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Description David Nordquest 2019-09-01 03:41:00 CEST
In Fedora 30, the xfce-4 panel 4.13.4 Orage clock/calendar app will not display the month or day in the right language or format. Rather than using the system language of US English, it uses Afar or Qafar, apparently a Cushitic language used in Ethiopia. I have found mentions of similar problems with language and format in Orage going back years. I have tried all sorts of things to fix the problem without success. Earlier, I was able to close Orage and start it again using a terminal and then it would temporarily show the clock and calendar correctly, but that stopped as soon as I closed the terminal-started instance of Orage. This is a significant problem, as it makes the calendar almost unusable and limits the clock options to digital formats, if you don't wish to learn Qafar.
Comment 1 David Nordquest 2019-10-12 17:54:31 CEST
The clock/calendar app is now working.

At the command-line: 

timedatectl status

showed non-English day names.

I believe it was the command:

localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

that finally got the day and month names in English and put Sunday first in the calendar.
Comment 2 Skunnyk editbugs 2019-10-27 18:39:42 CET
The orage project is not maintained anymore and has been archived. Closing bugs.

Bug #15908

Reported by:
David Nordquest
Reported on: 2019-09-01
Last modified on: 2019-10-27

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