[kde-linux] Re: 24 hour format

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 14 April 2011 14:25:30 David Jarvie wrote:
> 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.

and if you can't find it in the menu, try alt+f2 and type "systemsettings"

Anne
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