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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe this merits the "High" importance under the guidelines
of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Bug%20importances... this doesn't have a
severe impact on users, make a default Ubuntu installation generally
unusable, etc.

One could argue this is a Low importance but (ie, there is an easy
workaround, just use both settings).

However, these two keys aren't equivalent . clock-format is a 12h/24h
toggle. time-format has those two options, and two others: (1) follow
the locale default, and (2) use a custom strftime-style format string.
So dropping the time-format key would regress us on those two settings,
and locale-default is in fact the default setting.

I guess we could replace the 12h/24h options in clock-format with an
entry 'use-clock-format', but I'm not sure that would actually help if
the goal is to simplify the dconf settings :)


** Changed in: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Wishlist

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174261

Title:
  Ubuntu Time & Date applet should set GNOME 12/24-hour clock format

Status in The Date and Time Indicator:
  Confirmed
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In GNOME, the setting /org/gnome/desktop/interface/clock-format has
  value "12h" or "24h" and determines whether GNOME applications such as
  Nautilus display 12-hour or 24-hour time.  In vanilla GNOME's control
  center there's a Time & Date applet which lets the user set this
  value.

  In Ubuntu's control center, the 12/24-hour control in theTime & Date
  applet sets a different value, namely
  /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/time-format.  This setting
  determines how the clock appears in the Unity panel, but has no effect
  on GNOME applications.

  This leads to a poor and confusing user experience.  The format in the
  Unity panel may not match that in GNOME applications.  The user has no
  way to control the GNOME 12/24 hour setting through the Ubuntu control
  center.

  I think the best solution here is to eliminate
  /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/time-format, to let the user
  configure the underlying GNOME setting and to use that to decide how
  to display the clock in Unity.

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