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27.1; Setting (setq system-time-locale “C”) in daemon ineffective

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Matthias Weigand <matthias.weigand <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 42921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42921: 27.1;  Setting (setq system-time-locale
 “C”) in daemon ineffective
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:00:11 +0200

Matthias Weigand <matthias.weigand <at> 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?

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