Gnome time format wrong again

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 10 21:27:25 UTC 2012


On 01/10/2012 03:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 14:30 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Again the time format has switched from date-AM/PM to DoW-24hr.  It
>> happened sometime since last night.  I don't always look hard at the
>> time, but I know it was the 'right' format last night.  The settings are
>> right.  Last time a<alt-F1>r put the format back.  Before I try that
>> which log file might I look into for something happening (and what to
>> look for) that might point to the problem.  Perhaps I might even file a
>> bug report....
>>
>>
> How are you setting it? Are you  using: Application->  System Tools
> ->system settings->  Date and Time?

Yes.  And you can also get to it from the System Settings choice from 
clicking on user on the right on the top panel.

> Have you set the syswtem time to utc using system-config-date?

Been set for utc since install.  Just checked and it is still set for utc.

> Not doing the latter will cause random time variations as I found out
> the hard way,

I am also using ntp.




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