REPOST- Having the date format shown correctly in Lucid (and Maverick)

[Stephen Michael Kuhn]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:38:40 pm Basil Chupin wrote:

> > Google is your friend.
> 
> Google is NOT my friend, nor anyone else's.

I had to break that news to Google. She was a tad bit upset. Wasn't very 
tactful, you know, breaking her heart like that - just when she thought she 
was EVERYONE's friend...tch tch tch...
 
> >   Have you tried the following?
> > 
> > http://ubuntulinux.co.in/blog/ubuntu/how-to-set-time-zone-in-cli-mode-in-
> > ubuntu-server/
> 
> Yep, and it does not solve my problem - I still get the American way of
> showing the time stamp - month/day/year - and not what I have Ubuntu
> configured to show: day/month/year.
> 
> Even Windows could do this for me - but not Ubuntu/Gnome :'( :'( .
> 
> BC

This is actually an issue with the applet, not necessarily with Gnome (Gee, No 
Me!); this has been happening since, um, forever - as when I moved to this 
lovely country, I wanted to fit in with everyone else and I wanted the date to 
reflect the same as is locally preferred. I have lost friends just because of 
this applet's inability to display the time/date/century in the format I so 
desire. HOWEVER, there is hope. Upon looking through the "registry" in gconf-
editor, there is a "custom" function for setting the format - which is NOT 
accessible through the GUI of the applet. It would appear as though some 
programming knowledge is necessary (for strings and string variables). I know 
this and a donut don't amount to much, but it's something of an answer, and 
something to use to console oneself - as this has plagued me since 2000 (ad, 
not bc).
Cheers!

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