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In all prior versions of Kubuntu I've ever used (going back five years or so), I can go to System Settings and customize the date/time formats, specifying that I want 24-hour time, short dates, whatever. In 15.04, apparently, all you can do is pick a country and it uses the locale settings for that country. This is absurd, to say the least. Why were these settings removed?

I don't know if this is also the case in regular Ubuntu (I strongly dislike Unity), but I sure as heck hope there's some way to get this functionality back. Being forced to use 12-hour time simply because my locale is the US is ridiculous. I can change my Time setting to "United Kingdom", which solves the time problem, but then sets a Date setting that I absolutely don't want to use.

Whose idea was this, and where can I find them to complain?

dirtside
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  • You are using KDE - the KDE has own forum: https://forum.kde.org . A pick: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=124741 . A KDE bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345378#c8 . A workaround to format the time/clock: http://askubuntu.com/questions/611240/kde-clock-format-how-to-include-the-day-in-a-non-tiny-font/611814 – user26687 Jun 24 '15 at 06:38
  • Does not it have the option to select 12/24 hour format in the time and date settings ? in my 14.04 its in the Clock tab of Time and Date ..also please remove your answer..if you something to add please edit your question and add that.. – heemayl Jul 04 '15 at 22:29
  • @heemayl - 14.04 and 15.04 are very different, and 15.04 does not let you customize date/time formats beyond picking a locale. – dirtside Oct 07 '15 at 01:59

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Right click on the clock and choose the "settings for digital clock" then customize it to your willings and press the apply button.

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Since Plasma 5.4:

  1. Right-click on digital clock
  2. Select "Digital Clock Settings"
  3. Check "Use 24 hour clock" (about half-way down the dialog)
Michael Mikowski
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