Clock can't display international date format

Thanks for your bug. Do you have the language-pack-gnome-en-base package installed?

Yes, I have language-pack-gnome-en 20051011.

$ LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 date
Mon Mar 20 16:31:34 CET 2006

This is precisely what the en_DK locale prescribes. Also, your manual LC_TIME definition should be en_DK.UTF-8 (not .utf8).

So, what is the bug here? clock-applet should provide an option to show ISO-style? Or is the locale definiton for the date format wrong?

Note that the format comes from the translation, so it reacts to LC_MESSAGES and not LC_TIME probably

> $ LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 date
> Mon Mar 20 16:31:34 CET 2006
> This is precisely what the en_DK locale prescribes.

No it is not. I have filed a bug against date (coreutils) too. en_DK date would be 2006-03-20 17:49

For example, Thunderbird shows dates according to locales.
http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/international_iso-8601_date_on_thunderbird.html

Also, locales work correctly in 'ls':

$ LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 tee tee 18432 2006-02-03 20:11 foo.txt
$ LC_TIME=en_US ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 tee tee 18432 Feb 3 20:11 foo.txt

Gnome Clock format can't be changed in gconf-editor, even though it has keys for that.

$ gconf-editor
Edit:Find: "clock"

/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/clock/prefs/format
Key description: "If set to "custom", the clock will display time
according to the format specified in the custom_format key."

/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/clock/prefs/custom_format
Key description: "This key specifies the format used by the clock applet when the format key is set to "custom". You can use conversion specifiers understood by strftime() to obtain a specific format."

I set
- format: "custom"
- custom_format: "%x %X"
Removed clock in panel, then put it back. Logged off and on. Still, clock format does not change.

Gnome Bug 122601 – Add possibility to format the hour using a gconf key and strftime
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122601

Can set a custom date format with
$ gconf-editor
search: applet_
Find clock applet among about 5 applets.
Change for example 2006-04-16 16:39 Sun w15
custom_format: "%x %H:%M %a w%W"
format: "custom"
Clock format changes immidiately.

When format is "custom", Clock applet, right click: Preferences shows a dialog to edit custom format. This only works once, after that it must be edited in gconf-editor.

Copy date does not work.

I did not yet find a way to put short localized date in it: "%x %X" shows seconds, even if show seconds is not selected, and even if 'ls' shows only minutes with the same LC_DATE.

Week numbers are incorrect gnome-clock pop up calendar.

I have week starting day set to Monday in every place I could think of: 'locale': LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8, Evolution, searching in gconf-editor only shows settings of week starting day Monday. Week numbers are displayed correctly in Evolution when I double click a date in panel clock pop-up calendar.

Probably the same issue than http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323453 upstream

Still not resolved, in Feisty Fawn it's impossible to get the clock applet display the calendar so that weeks are beginning from Monday.

Please remember that the week begins on Monday in a lot of countries (for example in all European ones).

Filed this now, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465343