[kde-linux] Re: 24 hour format

[David Jarvie]

On Thu, April 14, 2011 12:47 pm, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> On 04/14/11 10:50, Duncan wrote:
>> Wolfgang Mueller posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:28:36 +0200 as excerpted:
>>
>>> How can I switch the clock in the panel from am/pm  to 24 hours? I do
>>> not see any appropriate option in "Digital Clock Settings" .
>> See kcontrol (the so-called system-settings that are instead
>> kde-specific
>> user-specific settings, for the most part, *NOT* the system-settings
>> claimed, the kde3 term kcontrol thus being FAR more accurate), common
>> appearance and behavior, locale, country/region and language.  There,
>> switch to the time tab and adjust the settings as desired. =:^)
>>
>> (The kcontrol path above is for kde 4.5+.  4.4 and earlier used a
>> different kcontrol layout so the location of that module will be
>> different.)
>>
> I forgot to mention that I run kde 4.6.0 release 6 under Open Suse 11.4.
> Can you please tell me which of these two directories called kcontrol
> you mean,
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root 4096 Feb 27 15:23 /usr/share/kde4/apps/kcontrol/    or
> drwxr-xr-x 67 root 4096 Feb 22 02:42 /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/
>
> and for which subdirectory I should look for. Anyway, there is none
> called "system-settings".

You should actually be running the KDE system settings application, which
you can find in the main KDE menu, not kcontrol. You don't need to look in
the file system to set the clock format.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm