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Thread: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

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    Arrow Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    The clock panel applet is set for the 24 hour but I want to set it for 12 hour. I can't stand it when I want to know what time it is and it shows 1300 (or whatever) instead of 1pm, so I have to sit there and count to figure out what time it is.

    Is it possible to change the clock to display 12 hour am/pm time?
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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Right click it->Edit Digital Clock settings.
    Change clock format from %R to %r.

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Can you right click on the clock and select Digital Clock Settings
    Under Clock Format
    Change to something like

    Code:
    %a %b %I:%M %P
    That will give you Date/day time

    You can change that to your own preference
    More info in terminal type in
    man strftime

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Quote Originally Posted by TeoBigusGeekus View Post
    Right click it->Edit Digital Clock settings.
    Change clock format from %R to %r.
    No kidding? That easy? Cool.

    Thanx.

    That resolved it.
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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    You can always change how time is displayed by choosing "System Settings - Regional & Language - Time & Dates (Tab)" and changing how it's displayed in there too.

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Right click on the LXDE panel's digital clock and then left click on "Digital Clock" Settings. The configuration window that pops up will refer you to man 3 strftime. That function was not present in 11.04 but it was present in 11.10. In 12.04, it's gone again. In 11.04, I couldn't figure out why the manual page was missing but this time around, I got lucky. The answer was at

    http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/missing_pages.html

    In short, crank up Synaptic and add two packages:
    manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev.

    As always, thanks to those who share their knowledge.

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Just to let anyone know how to actually change it in most recent distros add in this:
    Code:
    %I:%M:%S %p
    Replace the %R part with the code.

    enjoy.

    Oh and for the record I use Ubuntu with LXDE, Compiz has better performance with it.

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Quote Originally Posted by TeoBigusGeekus View Post
    Right click it->Edit Digital Clock settings.
    Change clock format from %R to %r.
    Thanks worked like a charm.

    I hd to re-set my password using my old dell inspiron 6000 with keybordtht have the a, . not working specially to reply to you and thank you..

    and hey guys with old machines looking for something lighter than even xp do not think of windows 7 or 8 .... just go LUBUNtu!!!


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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Works great! Thanks for the tip!

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    Re: Set time for 12 hour instead of 24 hour, in Lubuntu?

    Followed the guidance of this post reply. The format is now 12hr but four hours ahead of the correct time. BIOS time was correct when last checked. Guidance sought.

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