indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese
Bug #1769288 reported by
Joe Carey
This bug affects 1 person
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indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The date should be (and has been in previous Ubuntu versions) displayed as follows (for YMD):
2018年5月4日 (the symbols clearly mean year, month, day).
Instead, they're displayed weirdly as "5月 4 2018" This is not the way a date would ever be written in Japanese. In gnome this happens on the lock screen as well.
If you were writing a date without the year it would be:
5月4日
it doesn't make sense to leave off the 日.
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Hey, from https:/ /askubuntu. com/questions/ 237941/ how-to- configure- the-clock- date-format- to-iso- 8601-in- unity
I was able to sort this manually:
There's no easy way to do it in the GUI. One can either use dconf-editor (which is GUI-ish), and edit two keys in /com/canonical/ indicator/ datetime (time-format to custom, and custom-time-format to the desired strftime directives, in your case %F %R (or, equivalently, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M)), or do it directly from the terminal with the following two commands (which, just to be clear, change the same keys):
dconf write /com/canonical/ indicator/ datetime/ time-format "'custom'" indicator/ datetime/ custom- time-format "'%F %R
dconf write /com/canonical/
I replaced %Y-%m-%d %H:%M with %Y年%m月%d日 %H:%M
However, the default remains not sane :)