Change time format from 12H to 24H kde Fedora 16

R. Welsh Robert_Welsh at comcast.net
Mon Apr 9 21:16:37 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 15:38 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On 04/09/2012 03:00 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> > This has to be a really stupid question, but I can't find an answer
> > anywhere online.  I'm running KDE on F16 and I would like the clock to
> > display 24H instead of 12H.  The Date/Time app with KDE doesn't change
> > it (at least it doesn't for my user) and system-config-date doesn't do
> > it either.  Can anyone tell me how to do it?
> 
> Hello, Mark
> Here is how do what you want under KDE:
> 1. "System Settings | Common Appearance and Behavior | Locale | Date & 
> Time | Time format:"
> 2. In the "Time format:" drop down menu, there are the following choices:
> HH:MM:SS
> PH:MM:SS AMPM
> pH:MM:SS AMPM
> 
> I run my clock in KDE in 12H mode.  But for experimentation's sake, I 
> changed my setting to "HH:MM:SS", logged out and logged right back in. 
> The result was that my clock now displays time in 24H mode.
> 
> If the "Date/Time app" that you are referring to is the same thing that 
> I referred to above, I have no idea why you can't change your time to 
> 24H mode...  If you haven't already, you might want to create a fresh 
> user and see if you can change the clock to 24H mode for that user.
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick

Worked like a champ...  Thanks.

Bob W.



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