how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 04:59:44 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:37, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 00:05 -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format?
>>
>> I'm running Fedora 14 in two different instances and neither of them
>> seem to allow me to modify the format of the time to be in 24-hour
>> format rather than the am/pm type.
>
> You should probably say where you want the 24 hour format to be seen.
> If you just mean the clock on the taskbar, you should be able to
> right-click it and set your preferences.

  That is what I meant and I'm able to do it now (after I installed
virtually *ALL* of Fedora other than Clustering and Virtualization and
non-English languages), but I was not able to get the 24-hour time
format from the right-click on the date-time taskbar item.

> If you mean elsewhere, it may be a locale option.  Or, perhaps, an
> environment variable.

Thanks,
Ken


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