>On 29/01/07, Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com <Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com> wrote: >> >>If you are running the UI in English but living in e.g. >Germany you >> >>could also just go to the Control Panel, launch "Language >and region" >> >>applet, set your UI to English, your regional settings to >Deutchland >> >>and off you go. >> > >> >That sounds like a horrible hack to me. And I don't live in Germany >> >and want a 24 hour clock. >> >> Not for me running English UI with Finish locales ;) >> >> >And I'm still wondering where this UK = am/pm clock style >only comes >> >from. >> >> POSIX locale. Specifications for US/UK say you use 12 hour time. >> >> >>I do not see this as something that would be high enough on our >> >>agenda right now. >> > >> >For me it's lower priority that getting an email client >that works so >> >I don't have to online and paying Orange's outrageous data >charges to >> >read my mail. Having said that, I'd be interested to know why the >> >original implementation is broken and on what basis the >decision was >> >made. >> >> Nothing is broken, all works as specified ;) >> >> As I said, we migh look into it, but AFAIK this would mean we either >> modify the current locale (really nasty) or create a pseudo-locale >> with the user setting (just nasty). Unless someone has >better idea or >> understanding of the POSIX locales. Either way, I'd feel we would be >> the only UNIX system doing this (does OSX do it too?). Ideas welcome. > >Fantastic - although you didn't respond to my email, you gave >exactly the information I was hoping for :) > >I'm not posting this to the list because I'm not sure I'm on >the right list - I'll post there (or you can post a response) >if it's helpful later... > >Does this mean that if we can set LC_TIME we could change this >ourselves? Hi, Posting back to the list. Short answer: YES. You can go and set LC_TIME to whatever you want in e.g. /etc/osso-af-init/locale. For example just add there LC_TIME = fi_FI (again, you are setting you time preference to that of some other locale, e.g. Finish). Br, --jakub
