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Chris Titus Tech's Linux Toolbox - Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks.
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Adding a option to change to 24 hour format in Debian #943

Open bungadrum opened 2 weeks ago

bungadrum commented 2 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The latest version of Debian doesn't ship with a 24h format, but with 12 hour AM/PM instead. It takes a lot of messing in the terminal to change it. I use the EU format not the US one can you add a easy way to change that. Unlike Ubuntu Debian doesn't configure the Locale for you in the installer even if you set your location outside of US. Debian is very messy when it comes to changing and reconfiguring locales and time formats can you make it simpler for regular use?

Describe the solution you'd like

Adding a update/change locale option and a alternative to the US time. Similar when you do dpkg-reconfigure localesit would list all available locales and you would pick and change to one that suits your needs.

Examples: update-locale LC_TIME=C.UTF-8

LC_TIME to en_GB.UTF-8

Describe alternatives you've considered

Listing all Locale options under Settings in Linutil. This would mostly be for Debian and Arch users. There could be a Locale category with available options as well.

Additional context

N/A

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alexanderbrown21 commented 6 days ago

i have had a look and there is no settings option, where we you see this reside?

alexanderbrown21 commented 6 days ago

what are your opinions @ChrisTitusTech on such a change, could a separate section be added for such?

bungadrum commented 5 days ago

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=143572 https://wiki.debian.org/Locale https://serverfault.com/questions/54591/how-to-install-change-locale-on-debian

alexanderbrown21 commented 5 days ago

in my honest opinion it sounds like a valid change, do you plan to look at it @bungadrum ?

alexanderbrown21 commented 5 days ago

a settings section could be useful to configure the locale but maybe we can check with @ChrisTitusTech ?

alexanderbrown21 commented 5 days ago

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=143572 https://wiki.debian.org/Locale https://serverfault.com/questions/54591/how-to-install-change-locale-on-debian

are we sure it has locale in the installation i might have a look, i don't know if experienced this issue before?