Problems with locale

[Oceanwatcher]

I am using Skype for talking to family and friends. And it is mostly good :-)

But I have been looking for the answer to one detail. The display of time in chats etc. is wrong. It displays as 12h system instead of 24h.

In the system settings, I have country/regioon set to Brazil. So currency, measures and time in general is 24h.

After researching a bit. it turns out that Skype uses the locale setting in Linux to determine what time format to use. By running locale in a console window I get this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Remember - the country/region is set correct in the system settings.

To me, it seems that the locale setting is not updated from the system settings. So my system is running with different settings.

Yes, the language should be US English. And I need UTF-8. But most other settings should be Brazilian. Except for keyboard that has to be Norwegian. Simple enough? :-)

Is there a commandline option to change locale settings? And what happen to system settings if I change anything?

Grateful for any help in this. And maybe we need to add a bug report to KDE if this is something that is not fixable by a setting.