Bad localization of date format

Bug #2013281 reported by Edu Gómez Escandell
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Shell
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

# Affected version

I'm using wayland on Ubuntu 22.10 with GNOME Shell 43.1.

# Bug summary

The date displayed on the top bar follows format [Month(short)] [day] [time]:
```
mar 30 08:59
```

This date format makes sense in english, but not in spanish. Furthermore, "marzo" (march) and "martes" (tuesday) both start with "mar", so it looks like it has been tuesday for the past 30 days; particularly since [weekday] [day] is a common format, whereas [month] [day] is not a format at all.

The lockscreen shows a similar format [weekday] [month] [day]. This one is wrong, but not confusing. It reads like a bad machine translation.
```
martes marzo 30
```

I initially opened [upstream](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6558) and was redirected here.

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Edu Gómez Escandell (edugomez) wrote :
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The translation seems to match what upstream has

$ LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 LANG= LANGUAGE= gettext -d gnome-desktop-3.0 '%a %b %-e_%R'
%a %-e de %b_%R

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