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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Defaulting to 24-hour time seems quite reasonable if (like Olga, or me)
you've spent years in a country where 24-hour time is common. But if you
haven't, it seems daft. With the clock in the status bar, we similarly
had an edict that it should always show 24-hour time, as a way of saving
space. The American indicator engineers refused, on the perfectly
reasonable grounds that except for people in the military, hardly any
Americans would understand it. So we continued with the previous design:
time display is tied to your locale, which in System Settings is called
"Display language" because that's ~99% of its visible effect.

Of course, not being able to change the time display without also
changing the display language is also daft. It's a decades-old problem
stemming from Ubuntu's reliance on the GNU locale system, which assumes
that every single person using a particular locale wants exactly the
same settings for time display, date display, currency display,
alphabetizing, and number formatting. Windows, Mac OS, and iOS have
always been better at this. I've just reported bug 1392699 on fixing it
for Ubuntu.

In the meantime, I suggest that the Clock app include its own
12-/24-hour setting. This is what we did for the menu bar clock on
Ubuntu for PC. (The setting sits in System Settings, for want of a
better place, but it explicitly applies only to the "clock in the menu
bar".) One way of doing this would be for tapping on the clock face to
toggle not just between analog and digital, but between analogue,
12-hour digital, and 24-hour digital.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1236203

Title:
  [greeter] [indicators] Design requests that the clock is shown in 24
  hour mode by default (i.e. they don't want to see the AM/PM part)

Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  Fix Committed
Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As per the subject.

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  DESIRED RESOLUTION:
  AM/PM should never be shown, irrespective of twelve or 24h clock.

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