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Following the steps in the thread How to change Date/Time format to English? I got my Language Support app crashed, so I wonder if it is possible to change the language of the calendar from the command line.

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You are probably on Ubuntu 16.04, and have run into this bug. I recommend that you either wait a few days until it has been fixed through the package updates, or install accountsservice from xenial-proposed in accordance with comment #5 in the bug report.

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by changing locale

update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
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  • This might changed the way how the format of the timestring the clock uses, nevertheless the language of the calendar remained the same.
    – Matsmath
    May 17, 2016 at 20:13
  • system settings > useraccounts and try to change language there? or this package: packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=language-selector
    – Frank Schrijver
    May 17, 2016 at 20:19
  • I checked locale and there half of the things were changed only to en_US.UTF-8. So I changed LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8. A logout was also necessary to update these changes. Please improve your answer.
    – Matsmath
    May 17, 2016 at 20:20
  • Well, neither the above answer nor @Matsmaths idea is a good idea, since they both break the handling of languages/locales via the Language Support GUI.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    May 17, 2016 at 20:30
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    @Matsmath: Sure, you can undo what you changed in /etc/default/locale. Basically one line is sufficient: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (or whatever locale you want as the default). Then, when the bug has been fixed, you can handle the rest via Language Support.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    May 17, 2016 at 20:36

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