Re: Dapper clock and locales

Keith Powell wrote:
Julio Biason wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:25 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
So, as Dapper is on my "experimenting" hard drive, I reinstalled it using English-United States as the installation language, rather than English-United Kingdom. The clock was now using the 12Hour system and 12Hour was an item in the clock's preferences menu. I changed the Time Zone to London and altered the clock to read "our time". It still showed 12Hour. However, I found that the keyboard was set up as an American one rather than a British one. Changed the keyboard layout in the System -> Administration menu, but it didn't change - the keyboard stayed American.

The keyboard settings affect only the selected application, not the
whole setup (and this happens on Windows too). There is a small checkbox
where you can point that the keyboard layout changes affect all
applications. That should probably solve your problem.

Also, the "Keyboard indicator" applet would show which layout is
selected for the current window.


In KDE, selecting Configure - Keyboard, uses that keyboard layout for everything. I thought it would be the same in Gnome. I will investigate the keyboard applet. Thanks for telling me about it.

Please, developers, give us our 12 hour clock back. :-(

Why don't just right click the clock and select "Preferences"?

That's the problem, Julio. There is *no* 12 hour option in the clock's "Preferences" menu, when Dapper is installed using the English - United Kingdom language. Only 24 hour, UNIX time and Internet.

Cheers

Keith





On my system, I right-clicked the clock. I selected "Adjust Date & Time".
Then I clicked the "Date and Time" tab. In the "Time format" drop down box, I selected pH:MM:SS AMPM.

Now my clock is in 12 hour mode. For example it shows 5:00 am, and later on it shows 5:00 pm.

This has fixed the time on 3 Dapper susyems here.

HTH.


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