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Tor Messenger unable to change date/time format in chat

  • Tor Messenger Version: "0.4.0b2 (based on Instantbird 1.6a1pre)"

  • Platform: linux x64

Expected behavior:

Set ISO date format in chat display. Date %Y-%m-%d, time %H:%M:%S. NO "AM"/"PM"!

Actual behavior:

American-style date/time with AM/PM, etc. See attached screenshot. Note, screenshot is of view in settings; but it is consistent with what is seen in an actual chat (private, will not screenshot!).

Attempted fixes:

  • Customize system date/time format, with distro-provided luser GUI.

  • Set environment $LC_ALL and $LC_TIME to en_DK, en_DK.UTF-8

  • localectl set-locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8

  • gsettings set org.gnome.system.locale region en_DK.UTF-8

  • Mash random stuff in Tor Messenger's about:config style widget (probably broke something)

  • LC_ALL=en_DK.utf8 ./start-tor-messenger.desktop --UILocale en_DK.utf8

  • Try all of the above with both en_DK.UTF-8 and en_DK.utf8, because:

user@host:~/tor-messenger$ locale -a | grep en_DK en_DK en_DK.iso885915 en_DK.utf8

  • Ask $SEARCH_ENGINE for help.

  • tar -xf a fresh tor-messenger, with empty profile, after all the above.

  • Punch mattress, scream curse words into pillow.

  • Get lobotomy to make me like AM/PM (still did not take; NO ME GUSTA).

Note: Setting this kind of thing on Linux is somehow always a mess. Please either respect $LC_ALL, $LC_TIME, etc., or at least grow a kludgey about:config setting which takes a strftime(3) format string. Thanks.

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