In order to handle the clock's various display setting correctly for
different locales, we mark strftime format strings for translation.
However those translations are looked up according to the locale
defined by LC_MESSAGES, while the conversion characters themselves
are resolved according to LC_TIME, with rather odd results when
mixing locales.
The correct solution would be to install translations for format
strings in the LC_TIME catalogue and look them up with dcgettext(),
but we don't have the infrastructure to do that easily. Work around
this by adding a helper method that looks up a string in LC_MESSAGES
using the locale defined by LC_TIME and use that to translate the
format strings, which has the same result.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789205