Time format setting no longer applies to terminal shell

[Frode Nordahl]

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch)
Release: 19.10
Codename: eoan
$ dpkg -l |grep gnome-control-center
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.33.90-1ubuntu2 amd64 utilities to configure the GNOME desktop
ii gnome-control-center-data 1:3.33.90-1ubuntu2 all configuration applets for GNOME - data files
ii gnome-control-center-faces 1:3.33.90-1ubuntu2 all utilities to configure the GNOME desktop - faces images

After a recent change in Eoan, I believe it was glibc, the Time Format selector between 24-hour and 12-hour no longer applies to the terminal.

I would like my system to use the English language and English formats, but I do want it to adhere to my local custom of displaying the 24-hour clock.

Until recently this worked automatically, but now I have to manually set LC_TIME to ``C.UTF-8`` to get the desired effect.

While this may have been my responsibility all along the behavior did change recently.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi. Me again. :)

AFAIK the Time Format selector (in Settings -> Details -> Date & Time) sets a dconf value which affects the clock in the top bar only. I just tested on 19.04, and can't find that it affects gnome-terminal at all.

It's possible that bug #1842256 affects you. To find out, can you please run these two commands:

cat /etc/default/locale

cat ~/.pam_environment

and show us the output here.

[Frode Nordahl (fnordahl)]

$ cat /etc/default/locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US

$ cat .pam_environment
LANGUAGE DEFAULT=en
LANG DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8
PAPERSIZE DEFAULT=letter

hum, that could explain where the LANGUAGE=en came from when I looked around previously.

Would that affect clock output at all? I'll have a look.

Just wanted to note that I have not created the .pam_environment file and my system has gone through the loops of upgrading to Eoan from Bionic

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

It's en_US all over, and with your current settings you are not affected by the bug I mentioned.

~/.pam_environment is created automatically if/when you change Language or Formats in Settings -> Region & Language. It simply saves the specific settings for your user as opposed to the system wide settings in /etc/default/locale.

So my theory that bug #1842256 had confused you proved to be wrong, and we are back where we started: You claim that the Time Format selector previously affected the terminal, but I'm not able to confirm that.