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pmtk_milk

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[SOLVED] ¿How i change the hour format?

Hi, I want to have the 12-hour format because 24-hour is confusing for me, and i having issues with time, like its 22:04 (10:04 PM) but is 8:04 AM
(Like 14 hours of difference), i tried timedatectl set-ntp false and timedatectl set-ntp true, changing manually the time (With timedatectl set-time). I have these issues since i installed Arch Linux in my PC. Any help helps
sorry for the bad english, i dont speak much english

EDIT: I just change the timezone, you have to go in the control panel > panels > panel 1 > clock, something like that

Last edited by pmtk_milk (2026-07-05 21:49:04)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

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Re: [SOLVED] ¿How i change the hour format?

¿How i change the hour format?

In what?

The output of date? Examples:

date +'%H:%m'
date +"%I:%M %p"
date +"%I:%M %P"
date +'%r'

printf? Example:

printf '%(%I:%M %p)T\n'

A window manager/desktop environment clock? Which one?

See:
man date
man printf
man <your desktop environment>

Last edited by teckk (2026-07-05 15:29:55)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] ¿How i change the hour format?

ntp is responsible for keeping the system time in line with other clocks and uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for this.

To determine what time you see on your screen timezones are used .

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#Time_zone

In order to set a time format you need to configure LC_TIME .

Note that DEs may offer timezone and format settings bnut /etc/locale.conf is used by everything on the system and tends to be the best place to set such things.

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pmtk_milk

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Registered: 2026-06-20

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Re: [SOLVED] ¿How i change the hour format?

¿How i change the hour format?

In what?

The output of date? Examples:

date +'%H:%m'
date +"%I:%M %p"
date +"%I:%M %P"
date +'%r'

printf? Example:

printf '%(%I:%M %p)T\n'

A window manager/desktop environment clock? Which one?

See:
man date
man printf
man <your desktop environment>

The system one, im not even a programmer. I was going to say the taskbar one but, i think that sounds stupid .

Im using XFCE if that matters

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

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Re: [SOLVED] ¿How i change the hour format?

Im using XFCE if that matters

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/clock