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

There's two implementations of the date/time on a MATE panel: MATE Clock Applet (default on most distros) Date/Time Indicator ( and default) The Indicators program can customise a few things, but it lacks the option for setting the format. For now, this can be set from the Terminal. Ayatana Indicators (>= 21.04) gsettings set org.ayatana.indicator.datetime time-format '12-hour' 20.04 gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format '12-hour'

[BMN]

I just installed Ubuntu Mate as the Ubuntu distro kept causing my system to freeze. Thus, I am new to Mate. Anyway, here is an update for anyone using 24.04 LTS. The location of the setting was changed since this post was answered.

dconf-editor: org/ayatana/indicator/datetime/time-format
terminal: gsettings set org.ayatana.indicator.datetime time-format '24-hour'

[Bombilla]

Welcome @BMN to the community!