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Xclock not displaying 24 hours

Asked by Robert christiansen

when I input the command
xclock -d -twentyfour -update 1

the Clock is still on AM,PM 12 hour mode.

is this normal ?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Which Ubuntu release, which version of xclock?

What is the output of the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy x11-apps

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Robert christiansen (ve3nte) said : 		#2

uname -a
Linux TYANS5515 5.4.0-45-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 26 13:38:52 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

apt-cache policy x11-apps
x11-apps:
  Installed: 7.7+8
  Candidate: 7.7+8
  Version table:
 *** 7.7+8 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The output I get is
Sat 05 Sep 2020 05:13:34 PM

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Manfred Hampl requested more information:
Which Ubuntu release, which version of xclock?

What is the output of the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy x11-apps

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Robert christiansen (ve3nte) said : 		#3

the version of xclock is 1.0.9

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

1. Your output of the apt-cache command is weird. A version 7.7+8 of x11-utils on Ubuntu does not exist.

2. This seems to be a known problem, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-apps/+bug/394430
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352967

Apparently the program uses the settings of LC_TIME and ignores the -twelve or -twentyfour options, if your locale setting is different from the default 'C'.

LANG=C xclock -d -twentyfour -update 1

should work.

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