Digital clock locale (KDE)

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Hello everyone.
Is it possible to add the ability to change the month names on the digital clock to match a different language configuration?
Interface - English
Time - France
In Gnome, this happens automatically. I couldn’t find it in KDE.
Thanks.

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hi, welcome.

what is the output of locale

you can change these individually via the settings > region & language page

a relog might be required for the changes to take effect.

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No. See screenshot. The locale is set to French. It’s not used in digital clock.

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perhaps you misunderstood.

you can open a terminal an type locale which will give you and output like this

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="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
LC_ALL=

also in settings you can change these things individually

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$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="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"
LC_ALL=

local
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I can reproduce this both on Fedora and KDE Linux.

With LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8, the digital clock tooltip correctly uses French for month and weekday names, but the calendar in the digital clock widget (like OP shows) uses English month and weekday names.

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bugs.kde.org time

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