Hi everyone.
Well I haven't tried the English version of Ubuntu 9.04 yet but yesterday installed and full patched the beta 5 in spanish in VirtualBox. As you can guess, I visited several know issues from previous versions of Ubuntu. The first I did was click in the date and take a look to the time and date options. With surprise, I found that in 9.04 you CAN'T change the time to whatever you like but you are forced with the 24 hours format.
This is a very old bug affecting -still- Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 (please check 222220). It only affects Spanish languages. Well, before you had the check-mark (It doesn't work but you have it). Now, in 9.04 it's gone and you are forced to use just one. Please, the fix for this is SO EASY that if I knew some about C programming, I would fix it myself. The more I think, the less I can understand WHY the time format can't be free because at the end it's nothing but personal taste.
Regards.
Turbo.
To avoid confusion, I attached two images showing the differences between 8.10 and 9.04 beta 5. Please note the missing 12/24 time format. In the future, I would like not only to see the option back but -this time and for all- working out of the box for the Spanish version with no need to edit or tweak files.
Regards.
Turbo.