{"id":1575,"date":"2018-12-24T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:18:09","slug":"linux-mint-19-1-lightning-calendar-in-english-but-dates-in-the-24-hour-time-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2018\/12\/24\/linux-mint-19-1-lightning-calendar-in-english-but-dates-in-the-24-hour-time-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 19.1: Lightning Calendar in English, but dates in the 24-hour time format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like having the user interface of my Linux Mint 19.1 in English, but the regional settings such as numbers and currency in a different language such as Swiss German.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/language-settings.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/language-settings.png 882w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/language-settings-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/language-settings-500x224.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><figcaption>Screenshot of the Language Settings dialog in Linux Mint 19.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the date and time settings are set as part of the Language Settings and can not be controlled individually (Update: This is no longer true for Linux Mint 19.3 where the time format can be set separately. See screenshot below :-). As a consequence, the Lightning Calendar extension in Thunderbird displays the time as a.m \/ p.m instead of the desired 24h time format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Override the system setting of the time format by adding the following two lines to your .profile file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">LC_TIME=de_CH.UTF-8\nexport LC_TIME<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find the text file .profile in you home folder (enable hidden files in Nemo first).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Linux Mint 19.3<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/screenshot-timesettings.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/screenshot-timesettings.png 827w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/screenshot-timesettings-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><figcaption>In Linux Mint 19.3 the time format can now be set separately \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like having the user interface of my Linux Mint 19.1 in English, but the regional settings such as numbers and currency in a different language such as Swiss German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux-mint","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}