Does not respect locale setting for time format

[Michael Terry]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

I would file this against indicator-datetime, but it's not in ubuntu yet. So I'm filing it here. I tried indicator-datetime from the canonical-dx-team PPA (version 0.0.1-0ubuntu1).

I am an American that likes 24-hour time, so I've set my language preferences to be en_GB. So I expected to see 24-hour time in indicator-datetime, but instead get AM/PM time.

The "Language Support" preference dialog says that my date format will be 24-hour (go to System->Administration->Language Support->Text and set the combo to "English (United Kingdom)" and notice the predicted date format.

This is, to be fair, the same behavior I get when I add the newly-old-school GNOME clock applet to the panel. But at least it has a preference to switch to the expected behavior. I respect the lack of such a preference here, but if you are going to remove it, at least get it right.

My /etc/default/locale:
LANG="en_GB.utf8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en"

Output of locale:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-applet 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 12 22:42:01 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-applet

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

now it is in Maverick so moving ;)