indicator-applet shows only 12 hour clock, not even am/pm

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen]

Suddenly I see a new clock in my gnome-panel, right click > about tells me it's indicator-applet 0.3.7. It's from lucid-proposed.
Where I'm from we use a 24 hour clock. The clock in indicator-applet shows currently "09:17", not even using am/pm to tell if it's morning or night. It's evening now, so it should say "21:17"

[cosmix (cosm7x)]

Indeed, this is extremely annoying; indicator-applet is half-baked software as is, giving the user little control over what's shown. GNOME suffers from poor (actually nonexistent) regional settings --- you can only choose a 'language' and have no control over individual formats for dates, times, numbers, currency etc.) and in this case it is compounded by the lack of any settings for the indicator-applet clock. A step backward, and a bug, but then again installing stuff from lucid-proposed may mean getting half-baked packages anyway.

[Henning Eggers (henninge)]

Also, the clock is somehow not synchronized. I use the clock applet instead (well, besides it atm ;), so I can see how the both differ, currently more than a minute but that has been growing ....

[Henning Eggers (henninge)]

I observed this on 0.3.6 and just updated to 0.3.7, where the problem still exists.

Note, while the 12-hour clock is such a nuissance for me, too, I reall just want to be able to _remove_ the clock from the applet.

[cosmix (cosm7x)]

The clock is part of the indicator-datetime package installed by unity. you can remove the package and the indicator-applet clock will go away.

[elchapugabriel (gabrielchapunov)]

Like Henning Eggers, I use the clock applet, which is somehow a standard in Gnome, and much more powerful than the new clock we can see but not remove easily in the new lucid-proposed indicator-applet.

The traditional clock applet is a lot better: it gives me the choice of 12/24, time sync through internet time server, climate icon in my town, a beautiful night/daylight worldmap, calendar integrated day by day even with evolution if I install it, it's a great gnome applet for me.

I was wondering too how to remove the new clock, but now thx to cosmix I have the howto, but it's like a trick, better would be to have it like an option: I don't know where to put that _remove_ option for the clock, because right click on it doesn't show possible options but the indicator-applet so empty menu, where I can only select to know about the indicator-applet, but not about that clock, or remove the indicator-applet, but not the clock in it.

I love the indicator-applet progress in mail/IM/2.0 notifications, showing in one place not only evolution but empathy and gwibber informations, and even more softs. But the clock must not be installing as a standard. I will now remove the indicator-datetime package, but it shouldn't be installed by unity as a standard. Is this really a unity bug?