From 74309cf722e44351e012dbffb8d2b72207bfc483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Fischer <dom_fischer@web.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:50:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added config option for locale to make date output work nicer

---
 jrnl/Entry.py   | 3 +++
 jrnl/install.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/jrnl/Entry.py b/jrnl/Entry.py
index 66b32f6c..bba1c731 100755
--- a/jrnl/Entry.py
+++ b/jrnl/Entry.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import re
 import textwrap
 from datetime import datetime
+import locale
 
 
 class Entry:
@@ -16,6 +17,8 @@ class Entry:
         self.tags = self.parse_tags()
         self.starred = starred
         self.modified = False
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, self.journal.config['locale'])
+
 
     @staticmethod
     def tag_regex(tagsymbols):
diff --git a/jrnl/install.py b/jrnl/install.py
index 138cb826..47488e42 100644
--- a/jrnl/install.py
+++ b/jrnl/install.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ default_config = {
     'default_hour': 9,
     'default_minute': 0,
     'timeformat': "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M",
+    'locale': "en_US",
     'tagsymbols': '@',
     'highlight': True,
     'linewrap': 79,