12-hour clock not available in Latin Spanish locale

I suggest the name of the bug report is changed to "No 12-hour clock available in Latin Spanish locale", to make it appropiate for all countries. Having an extra option to let the user choose between the two options shouldn't be that difficult to implement, considering other languages have this feature already. Please suscribe to the bug and mark it as affecting you to increase the heat. Also, if you live in a country where you would like to see this, add it here. I'm here for El Salvador.

how do I change the subject?
or do i have to open a new thread?

the settings comes from the locale

The setting comes from the locale, but when you use the English locale, you have the option to elect 12 or 24 hours clock. In almost every country there are people who prefer one or the other time format, it should be possible to choose in all locales, not only selected countries.

For reference, I'm an Australian in Mexico, installing Ubuntu for a friend who is very confused why he cannot have a 12 hour format clock if he wants it. I was giving him instructions on how to change it based on what I see on my laptop, with Australian locale settings.

I totally agree with this:
"it should be possible to choose in all locales, not only selected countries"

That's what we have been asking since 8.04 or even before, because it's a simple choice available in every major operating system except ubuntu.
It's not a fundamental usability matter wether one prefers 12 o 24 hours.

But as simple as it is, in the previous thread (colombian locale) we even were requested to provide evidence that in our country the 12 h format was actually used!!! And even after providing reference sites, the bug remain the same (except for colombian locale, i guess)

It's so weird to install ubuntu for someone else who discovers that -as a matter of fact- is not possible to change the OS to his/her favorite time format. That's exactly what happens to me when I installed ubuntu in my dad's laptop almost 2 years ago.
Believe me! There's nothing more straightforward that showing to a new ubuntu user how wonderfully "easy" is having to edit a locale config file with weird code just to change a time format.

It's a simple thing, with a simple solution as far as i can tell.
We would be very grateful if this is solved soon :D

I changed the subject to make it more pertinent to all countries.

Confirmed for locale es_VE (Venezuela), here we use a.m. / p.m. just the same as Colombia for example

I've seen this "bug" since 7.10, and release after release I've booted up for the first time hoping it had been fixed, just to realize it's still there. I can believe how long this annoying "lack of feature" has lived. Here hoping some developer understand how frustrating is trying to promote the "super OS" to my friends and family just to be ask why the clock is not on their native format (México). I know it can be modified quite painless editing some file, but is little "bugs" like this that make the OS feel unpolished for the common user.

Also, I've heard of a project called "One Hundred Paper Cuts", and although I haven't digg to deep on it, I believe it's spirit is to solve "low hanging fruits" like this. Maybe we should reorient this bug over there.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm in Dominican Republic, using natty, but the option is there (but in the fact, it doesn't work as said in the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/754571 . Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

Using Natty and ES_SV (El Salvador). The option is there, but it doesn't work.

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The bug is still present on Trusty.

Adolfo,

Whatever you may think about it, this issue needs to be dealt with locale by locale. If you want to help bringing the matter forward, this is what needs to be done:

* Specify exactly which locales are affected.

* For each of those locales, provide a couple of links to e.g. large newspaper or governmental sites which show that the a.m./p.m. format is actually in use.

That's what was was just done for es_DO at bug #1288843, and today it was fixed.

@gunnarhj Uh, I got confused and set this bug to "Fix released" but this one is more general than mine.

Also about bug #1288843, I believe the format string should use small case "a.m." and "p.m.", at least in Spanish, I believe that previous releases used lower case before this bug... But, as I cannot seem to find a reliable source be free to dismiss this suggestion.

Yes, this general (too general IMO) bug is not fixed.

As regards the fix of bug #1288843, the format in the es_DO locale is now small case, i.e. "a.m." and "p.m.". If application packages such as indicator-datetime do something else, you may want to file bugs against those packages.

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 1288843. There are a lot of Spanish locales, and I'm fairly sure that most of them *don't* use "a.m.", or even use 12 hour clocks. If someone wants them for a different locale, these bugs should be filed individually, not in bulk.