HI,

It’s correct that my format string use %a and %b, but the does NOT that yield the locale-specific names, but English names

This is the locale setting on my iMAC 24”, it’s in Danish, but I guess that it’s can be understood

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Den 22. okt. 2021 kl. 08.34 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

From: Niels Søndergaard <nisoni@algon.dk>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:37:18 +0200
Cc: Niels Søndergaard <nisoni@algon.dk>,
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%c gives:
Which is not the locale's date and time format

And if you use %b and %a, does that yield the locale-specific names?

And what are your locale settings outside Emacs?