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I do not know how it comes, but my calendar(upper right corner) is in Polish. How to change this to English?

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  • only that text is affected and all the other text is in English? May 24, 2017 at 14:48
  • @SumeetDeshmukh Yes,everything else is in English. May 24, 2017 at 14:59

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If everything except date is in English, then there is a high chance that the value of LC_TIME is something wrong, use localectl command to change it to your desired locale:

sudo localectl set-locale LC_TIME=en_US.utf8

or en_GB.utf8 for UK.

You can also place LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 at this file /etc/default/locale manually if you wish.

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data utility uses variable LC_TIME to know what language of days to use. If you want to know if this is really the issue, try:

echo $LC_TIME

then if you dont want to mess up anything, but still have different language in your script just change it in your script like

LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
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  • as said in the other answer, the file in question is /etc/default/locale.
    – cipricus
    Mar 11, 2020 at 15:59
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    just to clarify, if you want to change it permanently, export LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 ...put it into ~/.bashrc (your shell's init file) or ~/.profile to apply it everywhere on start Jun 5, 2020 at 9:33
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The default locale file location here: /etc/default

First install: nautilus-admin then logOut and logIn.

Then go to /etc/default.

Right click on locale and Edit As Administrator.

Edit locale file like this and save:

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

Done. Now log-out and log-in.

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Select the system settings "window". Click on Language Support. In the Regional Format tab set the preferred language. I had same problem when I first set clock wound up in Spanish. You will need to restart after change to take affect.

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