Hi Claus,
Thanks for reporting this issue and following up on it across multiple
Ubuntu releases. I've reviewed the evidence and can confirm that the
date format display in GNOME calendar is indeed incorrect for Greek
locale - showing "Σεπτεμβρίου 19" instead of the expected "19
Σεπτεμβρίου" (day before month, which is the Greek convention).
I'm updating this bug to Confirmed we have concrete reproduction
evidence across Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04. I also need to clarify that this
affects at least the gnome-calendar package specifically, not glib2.0
(possibly gnome-shell) - the calendar application has its own
localization logic for date formatting.
This is a valid localization bug that needs attention from the GNOME
calendar maintainers. The fix will involve adjusting the date format
strings to follow Greek conventions where day comes before month.
Thank you for your patience and detailed reporting!
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Primary Issue Location
File: gnome-calendar/src/gui/views/gcal-agenda-view.c
Function: new_date_header_string() (lines 183-211)
The function formats the date header using:
return g_date_time_format (date, _("%A %B %d"));
This produces "Weekday Month Date" order (e.g., "Σάββατο Σεπτεμβρίου
19").
The translations are in gnome-calendar/po/el.po
Oher format strings are incorrectly left untranslated, preserving the
American order instead of adapting to Greek conventions:
Line 1095-1096: "%a %B %d" > "%a %B %d" (Abbreviated Day Month Date)
Source: gnome-calendar/src/gui/gcal-event-widget.c:465
Line 1657-1658: "%A %B %d" > "%A %B %d" (Full Day Month Date)
Source: gnome-calendar/src/gui/views/gcal-agenda-view.c:210
Likely others too, but this is due to untranslated date format strings
in el.po for Greek.
** Package changed: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) => gnome-calendar (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: gnome-calendar (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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date format in calendar is wrong for greek language
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