indicator-datetime set for 24 hours does not show 24 hour clock for "Other Locations"

[Alec Warner]

I configured the clock format to be 24-hour. This takes affect in the system clock, however "other locations" are unaffected and still show 12-hour clock. See screenshot.

This is Ubuntu Trusty

indicator-datetime: 13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3-0ubuntu1

I expect the Other Locations to also be 24 hour display.

[Olafur Gudmundsson (olafur-g)]

Do you know if there's any plan to fix this bug?

[Reece (reece)]

I don't, and I'm surprised it's still an issue. Seems so obvious and easy
to fix.

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

This is still an issue in 16.04. In addition to the duplicate bugs, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/493725

Is there a work-around for this until it gets fixed?

[Nelson Elhage (nelhage)]

This is a terrible hack, but I've discovered that the applet will respect your locale, just not the preference option.

So setting `export LC_TIME=en_UK.UTF-8` in your `.gnomerc` should work, assuming you have the `en_UK.UTF-8` locale installed and configured.

[Nelson Elhage (nelhage)]

I'm sorry, that should be `en_GB.UTF-8`. But I just tested and confirmed that workaround works.

[Paul Gear (paulgear)]

I am in no way trying to suggest that there is not a bug here, but this bug has not affected me from trusty to yakkety. Here's a screenshot showing my indicator panel. Perhaps there is some particular combination of options which causes this?

[Nelson Elhage (nelhage)]

@paulgear, what locale is your system in? If you're in a 24-hour locale, as mentioned in #5, this bug is not present (well, to be precise, it's present in the opposite direction).

[Paul Gear (paulgear)]

@nelhage, my LANG=en_AU.UTF-8. To my knowledge, this is not a natively 24-hour locale, but I could be wrong - how does one check?