Indicator Applet Complete Clock Format

[Trystero]

Not exactly the biggest issue in the world but, I'd like to change the format of the clock in the indicator applet to 24 hour.

As far as I can tell there is no way to do this that I can find but I've seen a few screenshots showing it is possible.

Any help would be appreciated.

[franksmcb]

How do I change the time to 24 hours?

Well, open dconf-editor. It shows some hierarchical settings structure. Just navigate to com/canonical/indicator/datetime/time-format entry. [dconf]

[Trystero]

Thank you so much. Not sure why that didn't pop up when I searched. Probably being to wordy.

[lah7]

There's also the command line version - but "24-hour" not "12-hour":

Set the date/time indicator to 12 hour time

I just installed Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and realised that some of the help topics in the community reference the older dconf command for changing the time to 12 hour format. In 20.04 using the Terminal : gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format '12-hour' If your locale uses 12 hour, this should be set automatically. Some locales use both, so this command is if you prefer AM/PM. It would be nice to have this as a graphical option, however, Ubuntu MATE uses Canonical's…