It turned out, that although my zsh showed the correct locale, en_US.UTF-8 that is, my bash did still rock the wrong de_DE.UTF-8. Changing it solve the issue, for me at least. It does not explain why setting the locale in your init.el/config.org would not be accepted when running in daemon as opposed to individually instanced sessions. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, October 16, 2020 5:00 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Matthias Weigand matthias.weigand@protonmail.com writes: > > > I try to set the time locale to "C" in my config via (setq > > system-time-locale "C"). However, when using the emacs --daemon, it is > > not set properly and I end up with non-english date formats and weekday > > abbreviations when the system locale is different. > > Discussion over at stackexchange pointed to the time variable not being > > used directly but as a terminal-local variable. > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/60134 > > Unfortunately, I am not very literate in elisp so I am not able to > > provide more information. Let me know if I should test something. > > I'm unable to reproduce this error. Could you provide a recipe for > reproducing this? In particular, what are the LC_* language environment > variables? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no