Use same time format for greeter and indicator

And from what I can see from translating it, it is hard set. Different languages show whichever way the translators went with it. In portuguese it is showing 12 hour format, despite my system being set to 24 hour format.

Updated the bug report to reflect the technical issue here. What it seems people want (and I agree) is Greeter to use the same format as Wingpanel/DateTime is using. We should be able to get that format from the dconf key for indicator date time.

But this is definitely more of a feature request than a straight up bug fix. So untargetting as a priority for beta2

Is com/canonical/indicator/datetime set for the root user? Or will it pick up the value from each user, switching it as it switches backgrounds? I think that would be too confusing.

I'm not sure that is as confusing as it might seem - the backgrounds change to reflect the user options, change of time format would just reflect that as well. Changing on a per user basis might not be so bad and is the only viable solution If you think about thin-clients, vpns and other remote access options, It probably would have to be by user since each person would be acessing from a different place/timezone likely with different time formats.

Now, time is displayed in 12 hours format even if system is configured in 24 hours format, I think this requires more attention.

This bug affects me also. My system is using 24 hour clock format and Finnish localization. But lockscreen and login screen are using 12 hour clock. This bug affects Luna and Isis.

I've have found a way to get the 24 hour clock in wingpanel.

goto dconf-editor:

com > indicator > datetime

In the bottom there is a section called " time-format", change this to 24-hours.

There were some changes in lp:~elementary-os/elementaryos/os-patch-indicator-datetime-trusty that may have solved this bug, we need a new report from a FRESH install of Freya

Fresh install of Freya with the stable .iso . The bug stills. My system language is set to Spanish and the clock at the wingpanel is 24h format but on the greeter is like 12h format without indicating AM or PM.

Fresh install of stable Freya.

Language in system settings is French.

On greeter date is displayed in english format AND the whole greeter is in English language.

Once logged in, system is actually in French, date-time indicator in the french date-format.

(many translations are missing for the moment, here and there)

Important note I guess : on first boot after installing the system, greeter was in French, language and correct date-format !

Same thing here using Freya 0.3.1.
Wingpanel shows 24 hour format but greeter reports 12 hour format with no indication of either AM or PM.
System Locale is to Portuguese.

When using the new wingpanel-indicator-datatime we can not choose time format in system settings, it's taken from translation according to the current locale. Now in Greeter same method. I think this bug is invalid.

Fresh Freya 0.3.2 installation and this bug is still present.

1. I chose Finnish during the installation.
2. Greeter presents time in English format (am/pm, month name in English) after installation.
3. Had to install language-pack-fi and language-pack-fi-base after installation to get correct locales (date, currency etc.) since elementaryOS does not ship these by default for some reason.
4. After reboot Greeter shows TimeLabel in English but format is now defined by locale OR by po file strftime format (in Finnish adds a point after day and "-ta" suffix to month name (becomes Decemberta) http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-pantheon/pantheon-greeter/trunk/view/head:/po/fi.po#L62)

For those affected: Install language-selector-gnome and try to set your locale that way. Greeter's time format was fixed this way, and now I'm able to write using Finnish keyboard layout! So this might not be Greeter bug, it could be that elementary OS's locale plug doesn't do its magic very well.

Please don't remove the milestone.

Anyway I found something little: If you have multiple users with different backgrounds, the loginscreen changes to their background when switching between them. So there is a place where the loginscreen can access user defined information, why not the date format?

The Greeter in Loki builds now uses the System Locale Formats, which can be set in the Language and Locale Settings in Switchboard. Only thing here is they have to be set with Admin Permissions, because they change it for the system level.
I can confim that the Panel once logged in does not follow that same setting, it follows the Date and Time settings 24 hour setting. So we probably should be implementing this in a consistent way as well.

When will this be implemented, Loki stable still gives me AM/PM.

I can confirm. In switchboard, time is selected as 24h, and the Greeter is AM/PM.

Ok, so apparently the Greeter fix ignores what you set in the Date/Time switchboard plug and uses the format from the language file, whereas the indicator uses what you set in the Date/Time switchboard plug.

Same bug here. Still persistent in latest Loki release. Format is United Kingdom and lockscreen is AM/PM.

Working on it at the moment, see https://github.com/elementary/greeter/pull/53

@vishalrao Thank you for your effort! I like your approach showing the format based on selected user. This makes the login screen multi locale friendly and would be a nice addition in a multicultural environment.