How to change the waybar clock language correctly in Omarchy?

[lucasolima]

Hello everyone!

I am trying to change the language of the Waybar clock to Brazilian Portuguese, but I was not successful. Follow my attempts:

-Previously, it had already changed the locale to pt_BR.UTF_8, uncommenting the option in the /etc/locale.gen file. To check, I used the locale -a: command:

-Then, I added in the Waybar clock setting, in ~/.config/waybar/config.jsonc the desired locale:

-But there was no effect even after reloading the hyprland and restarting the machine:

-Testing via Python and LC_TIME, the time was displayed as expected:

-I also tried to force the use of locale in the Waybar call at ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/hypr/autostart.conf (Pardon, DHH), but I was also unsuccessful.

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My installation is minimal arch. Reading some cases, I saw that this can cause problems in reading the locale by waybar. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks everyone!

[rafaelbernard]

Oi, Lucas.

Your locale pt_BR.UTF-8 is correct. You need to add an L to your format. It will start with {:L.

If using clock instead of simpleclock, the locale will default to C regardless of the locale settings. To override this behavior you have to perpend L to the formatting string. For example, {:%a %m %d} becomes {:L%a %m %d}.

The source is waybar docs.

Abraços.

[lucasolima]

Huge thanks, @rafaelbernard ! It works.

Obrigado!