indicator applet ignores the 24-hour clock setting in system settings

[Martin Olsson]

I'm on a clean install of 12.04 daily build from 2012-03-24 with all updates. I've installed "gnome-panel" to get Ubuntu classic.

The panel shows time as "3:10PM" even though I have set it to "24-hour" clock in "Applications::System Tools::System Settings::Time and Date Settings".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what locale do you use? Does it work under unity? The applet is only a loader, that could be an issue with indicator-datetime itself as well

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

My menus, apps etc are in English but I use swedish keyboard layout.

[Jonas (jonas-f-henriksen)]

Hi, I have the same problem. I have English as my language, but norwegian keyboard.

[Quin Eirik (morpfh)]

Same here. GNOME Classic under Ubuntu 12.10 – Indicator Applet Complete 12.10.1

Using dconf-editor, gconf-editor etc. has no effect on time format. In dconf-editor one can change to display date, seconds etc. but time format string has no effect.

This works: (Alt+F2 or in terminal)

    XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity gnome-control-center indicator-datetime

Select clock and 24 hour format.

Alos note that adding the Clock item to panel does not have this bug. It is only for the one beside "Start" in upper right corner.

[panaak (panaak)]

Same here.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME

[Julian Lam (julian-lam)]

Affects me on two devices, one running 12.10:

    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description: Ubuntu 12.10
    Release: 12.10
    Codename: quantal