Changing clock locale

[Forkjulle]

Is there a way to change the locale of the clock? Currently, in F16, it reads as "Mon Mar 5, 20:30".

I would prefer it to read "Monday, 5 March, 20:30".

[jpollard]

Depends on where you are looking.

What are you looking at for the date?

[Forkjulle]

At the top of the screen, in the middle.

[jpollard]

I think that is a specification done by the widget/applet.

if you right click on it there should be a menu that has "Digital clock settings". You can read the manpage on "strftime", or the manpage on the date command.

One note - the manpage on strftime is not necessarily installed, but usually the manpage on the date command is - both provide an explanation of the formatting.

[Forkjulle]

Originally Posted by jpollard

I think that is a specification done by the widget/applet.

if you right click on it there should be a menu that has "Digital clock settings". You can read the manpage on "strftime", or the manpage on the date command.

One note - the manpage on strftime is not necessarily installed, but usually the manpage on the date command is - both provide an explanation of the formatting.

The clock seems to be part of the default Fedora 16 Gnome Shell installation. Right-clicking smply takes me to me the calender and "Date And Time Settings" (which give me no options for editing the locale)...

[PabloTwo]

Originally Posted by Forkjulle

Right-clicking smply takes me to me the calender and "Date And Time Settings" (which give me no options for editing the locale)...

Do you mean "locale", as in "where on the planet you are?". As in "what country, city, time-zone you're in?"
If so, what in the dickens does that have to do with:

Originally Posted by Forjulle

Is there a way to change the locale of the clock? Currently, in F16, it reads as "Mon Mar 5, 20:30".

I would prefer it to read "Monday, 5 March, 20:30".

[Forkjulle]

No, I want to change the clock's format (which is related to "locale" because in a country, for example, outside of the US and in the UK, a clock's formatting is different; the day appears before the month).

My question again: is this possible to adjust?

[jpollard]

In theory, yes.

In practice, I don't think so.

It goes back to the Gnome developers thinking they know better than the user how things should be.

You can try installing "Cinnamon" as that is where I found the option.

[Forkjulle]

Originally Posted by jpollard

In theory, yes.

In practice, I don't think so.

It goes back to the Gnome developers thinking they know better than the user how things should be.

Oh, and because everyone in the world uses American-styled formatting (just like everyone drives on the right side of the road).

I'll keep digging.

[PabloTwo]

Originally Posted by Forkjulle

No, I want to change the clock's format (which is related to "locale" because in a country, for example, outside of the US and in the UK, a clock's formatting is different; the day appears before the month).

My question again: is this possible to adjust?

In Gnome3, I have no idea. I haven't used Gnome myself since FC6. I don't know what the "time" applet you're seeing is capable of or how configurable it is (if it's even configurable at all). In all the panel date/time applets I've ever used, right-clicking the applet brings up a menu which included "preferences", where you could specify the date/time format string as jpollard already eluded to.

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You'll probably have to figure out which configuration file controls that time applet and manually edit it to get the display format you desire, unless some Gnome3 user can advise otherwise.

[sanhozay]

My clock says "Mon 5 Mar", i.e. a UK locale short date format. You can change that by clicking on your name in the top right corner, go to System Settings then Region & Language, Formats tab.

This will put the date in the correct format for the locale, but it will still be in abbreviated form. I don't know of a way to change that.

(You need to log out and back in).

[Gareth Jones]

Mon 5 March here too (GNOME3 in the UK). Check you've got your locales set correctly in System Settings as sanhozay suggests. If you still have problems, check the output of "echo $LANG" and "echo $LC_TIME" in a terminal.

Gareth