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indicator-datetime package

indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese

Bug #1769288 reported by Joe Carey
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Bug Description

The date should be (and has been in previous Ubuntu versions) displayed as follows (for YMD):

2018年5月4日 (the symbols clearly mean year, month, day).

Instead, they're displayed weirdly as "5月 4 2018" This is not the way a date would ever be written in Japanese. In gnome this happens on the lock screen as well.

If you were writing a date without the year it would be:

5月4日

it doesn't make sense to leave off the 日.

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Joe Carey (joecarey) wrote :

Hey, from https://askubuntu.com/questions/237941/how-to-configure-the-clock-date-format-to-iso-8601-in-unity

I was able to sort this manually:

There's no easy way to do it in the GUI. One can either use dconf-editor (which is GUI-ish), and edit two keys in /com/canonical/indicator/datetime (time-format to custom, and custom-time-format to the desired strftime directives, in your case %F %R (or, equivalently, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M)), or do it directly from the terminal with the following two commands (which, just to be clear, change the same keys):

dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/time-format "'custom'"
dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/custom-time-format "'%F %R

I replaced %Y-%m-%d %H:%M with %Y年%m月%d日 %H:%M

However, the default remains not sane :)

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Joe Carey (joecarey) wrote :

So, it seems the root is that Japan uses ISO dating typically, even handwritten, and the new default uses not ISO, and there's no GUI option to set it as such. Not so much a bug as a design choice.

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