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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #1768678
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Comment 0 for bug 1768678

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sds (sds-gnu) wrote :

Settings --> Region & Language --> Formats

Allows me to select the country, not set the actual format.us
I live in the US, so this means that I am stuck with

date: mm/dd/yyyy
time: HH:MM:SS AM/PM
date&time: the imbecilic format which somehow starts with week and ends with am/pm
numbers: 123,456,789.00
measurements: imperial
paper: us letter

basically, since all paper is always "letter", no other country selection will work for me.
however, I don't see why I have to be stuck with the crazy US customary units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units which are ___NOT___ "imperial" in any way!) and date/time formats that make no sense (although, apparently, used by many here).

This is 2018.
I could set date and time formats to ISO 8601 for the last 10 years at least.
What happened that you decided to take that away all of a sudden?!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-21.22-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 2 18:41:18 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (0 days ago)