Bug#746019: mate-screensaver: does not honor LC_TIME

brian m. carlson sandals at crustytoothpaste.net
Sun Apr 27 00:56:15 UTC 2014


Package: mate-screensaver
Version: 1.8.0-1
Severity: normal

mate-screensaver does not honor LC_TIME:

  vauxhall ok % perl -pe 's/\0/\n/g' /proc/$(pidof mate-screensaver)/environ | sort | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_)'
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_TIME=POSIX

This results in it using a 12-hour format for the clock.  As I use UTC
on my computer, a 12-hour clock is not particularly useful (and is in
fact confusing) to me.  mate-screensaver should honor the LC_TIME
variable and use a 24-hour clock when LC_TIME is set to POSIX.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-trunk-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mate-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                  1.8.0-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.18-4
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.16-2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.0-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libdconf1                 0.18.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-5
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.30.7-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.1.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.40.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.23-1
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.8-2
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17      1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  libmate-menu2             1.8.0-1
ii  libmatekbd4               1.8.0-1
ii  libnotify4                0.7.6-2
ii  libpam0g                  1.1.8-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.36.3-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.36.3-1
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.1-2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-3
ii  libsystemd-login0         204-8
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxklavier16             5.2.1-1
ii  libxss1                   1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.3-1
ii  mate-screensaver-common   1.8.0-1
ii  mate-session-manager      1.8.1-1

Versions of packages mate-screensaver recommends:
ii  mate-power-manager  1.8.0+dfsg1-1

Versions of packages mate-screensaver suggests:
ii  rss-glx            0.9.1-6+b1
ii  xscreensaver-data  5.26-1

-- no debconf information

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