GNU bug report logs - #39248
format-time-string ignores user's preferred locale

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello <at> paulwrankin.com>

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 39248 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39248 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Paul W. Rankin" <hello <at> paulwrankin.com>,
 eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#39248: format-time-string ignores user's preferred locale
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:04:59 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Or, given that the issue is isolated to Emacs.app when launched
>> outside of the shell environment, does that narrow it down at all?
>
> I guess that's yet another manifestation of the macOS deviant behavior
> of Emacs.app, whereby it doesn't inherit environment variables from
> the shell.

Rather, that macOS does not set up environment for applications
launched from Finder. I don't think that is an Emacs problem.

On GNU/Linux, my window manager runss from a login shell and so has a
correct environment for applications it launches.
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