Panel doesn't display Date-Format correctly

[Gerry Mallad]

In the top panel my date displays in the following format: Jan 9

But in System Settings under "Language Support" and "Date & Time" I have instructed Ubuntu to display the Date in the following format: 9 Jan

The Panel should display the Date & Time in the format the user chooses. In my case, I want the Date to display as "9 Jan" in the top panel.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Hi Gerry,

Could you attach a screenshot of your language support settings screen and the date indicator?

[Gerry Mallad (stromard)]

Here's the screenshots.

[Gerry Mallad (stromard)]

Another thing: notice how the Date Indicator shows "24-hour time." But both Nautilus and Language Support show AM/PM?

It'd be nice to be able to set the date format and time format (24-hour time) "across the board." So that the date format and time format are consistent (the same) throughout Ubuntu.

[nick rundy (nrundy)]

Gerry, you can customize the Panel's display of the date & time. What you need to do is download "dconf-tools" and install it. Then open dconf-editor and navigate to:

com > canonical > indicator > datetime

change the line that says "time-format" to "custom"

on the line at the top that says "custom-time-format" type this out: %a %e %h %H:%M

Logout and then back in and it should display how you want.

[nick rundy (nrundy)]

Filed bug with GNOME about time & date format not taking effect globally: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi

[nick rundy (nrundy)]

Sorry, bad link in post above. Here's a good one: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671279