276963 - 24 hour time format please!

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[klas_hultqvist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041220 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2RC1

There appears to be no way to change the display of times from e.g.
"06:30 PM" to "18:30" in the Sunbird release candidate. Since the former format
takes up unneccessary space in the display, and since many people would prefer
the latter regardless of that, I think it should be implemented. (It's also the
format
used in the event creation dialogue.) 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Sunbird
2. Create an event
3. Look at display of the event in month view, or just look at the day 
view with or without an event.

Actual Results:  
I always get the format with AM or PM.

Expected Results:  
Displayed times using a 24-hour notation

Comment 1

[Rod Whiteley]

It works for me.

Sunbird and other applications use your operating system's settings to determine
the display format.  This is so that dates and times in all your applications
are displayed in a consistent way, to avoid confusion.

You can change the format in your operating system, but I do not have detsils
for Linux.  Whatever desktop you use probably provides a user interface for the
setting.

Comment 2

[Greg Schussman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It works for me.
> 
> Sunbird and other applications use your operating system's settings to determine
> the display format.  This is so that dates and times in all your applications
> are displayed in a consistent way, to avoid confusion.

I think it is good to use the system's settings for display format.  However,
sunbird 0.2 (running on Linux with KDE 3.1.3) does not respect the system's
settings.  I get the 24 hour format, even though my system is set for am/pm.

Comment 3

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It works for me.
> 

WORKSFORME too.  Marking as such.

(In reply to comment #2)
> I think it is good to use the system's settings for display format.  However,
> sunbird 0.2 (running on Linux with KDE 3.1.3) does not respect the system's
> settings.  I get the 24 hour format, even though my system is set for am/pm.

This should be a separate bug.  Alternatively, it may just be that the
datetimepicker always uses 24hr format.  However, in the event list, the proper
time format should be used.  If not, please file another bug on it.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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