Set the system locale to somehting not American but set the system language to something not “English (United States)”. Obsidian still uses US locale.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Y
Expected result
The exptected result was that Obsidian used the date and time formats specified in the locale setting. and not the language setting.
Actual result
The locale reflected the sytem language setting and not the locale setting.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.10
Installer version: v1.8.10
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jul 10 15:22:32 UTC 2025 6.15.6-200.fc42.x86_64
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 0
Plugins enabled: 0
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
I just noticed a typo, “… but set the system language to something not “English (United States)”. …” should of course have read “… but set the system language to “English (United States)”. …”
Yes, I am running Fedora 42. It does not seem that adding --lang=da for example to the Flatpack command does not seem to apply, since it will then not launch. In any case, it is a highly sub-optimal workaround, it would clearly be better if Obsidian handled localization correctly in the first place.
As mentioned in the BR template. We do not take bug reports against flatpak. I think there is a way to pass arguments to the flatpak and you can look into that.