The update process should take no longer than few minutes to complete. Once it completes, run the following command to check the system locale specified on your server:

# localectl status
You should see something like the following:

# localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a
You can check the system locale specified on your CentOS VPS by reading the /etc/locale.conf file too:

# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8
If you want to set up different system locale on your system you can do that by using the localectl command. First, list the available locales:

# localectl list-locales
The list should be very long. If you want to filter the English locales you can do that using the command below:

# localectl list-locales | grep en_
You should get something like the following:

# localectl list-locales | grep en_
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU
en_AU.iso88591
en_AU.utf8
en_BW
en_BW.iso88591
en_BW.utf8
en_CA
en_CA.iso88591
en_CA.utf8
en_DK
en_DK.iso88591
en_DK.utf8
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8
en_HK
...
To set up a specific system locale to be a default one, you can use the localectl command:

The syntax is the following:

# localectl set-locale LANG=locale_name
Of course, you need to replace locale_name with the default locale you like to set. For example, if you’d like to set en_GB.utf8 as a default system locale you can use the command below:

# localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
To check if everything is OK you can run the following command again:

# localectl status