How to change the separator on the clock?

Question

I'm having the following problem: I've set the (Language Support) - Regional Formats (Display numbers etc.) to Hungarian, the format should be the following:

Example:

Number: 1.234.567,89

Date: 2016. nov 6, vasárnap (name of the day, not relevant, here's the relevant part:) 10:15:15

My clock however, isn't separated by :, but by ..

So my clock displays 9.20.46 atm., instead of 9:20:46.

Setting the format back to English would probably solve my issue, but doesn't anyone know how to modify this one instead, in order for it to be separated by colons instead of dots? Using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

How and why? You wanted to change the time format the question was too... How is this different? — Anwar, Nov 06 '16 at 10:23
I don't want to change the time format, what I want to change is the separator, from '.' to ':'. — Levente Boda, Nov 06 '16 at 10:43
If I'd be a Ubuntu expert, I wouldn't be asking questions. Also, that question is for a totally different Ubuntu version than mine. Thanks for your effort, but sadly that doesn't really help me. — Levente Boda, Nov 06 '16 at 10:55
Possible duplicate of How to change time format in Ubuntu 15.04? — Eric Carvalho, Nov 06 '16 at 14:39

Benny · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-06T11:10:04.270

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You can archive it by creating a custom locale in:

/usr/share/i18n/locales

Modify the date format using ASCII CODE (Change from U002E to U003A).
Compile it using localedef
Direct LC_TIME to your custom locale, restart pc.

For more info: How to Change Date Formats on Ubuntu

edited Nov 06 '16 at 11:10

answered Nov 06 '16 at 09:12

Benny

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Thanks, this makes lots of sense actually, yet for some reason, my locale remains the old one, even though I've set the LC_TIME to the custom one I've just modified. Even modified the original one, and compiled it afterwards, yet the format remained the same. Any idea why? – Levente Boda Nov 06 '16 at 10:54
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Thanks, it worked! Had to install "dconf", and set the time-format manually to the custom made one. (com/canonical/indicator/datetime, if anyone ever has the same issue) – Levente Boda Nov 06 '16 at 11:01

How to change the separator on the clock?

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