[Bug 48128] Locale en_GB gives 12-hour am/pm time

[alistair]

Public bug reported:

Setting locale en_GB results in time being displayed in 12-hour with
AM/PM rather than 24-hour format.

In the UK, when mentioning times in conversation, the 12-hour clock is
still used, but AM and PM have amlost disappeared from modern British
English.  Rather, something like "nine in the morning" or "four in the
afternoon" would be used.

In almost all other circumstances, and almost without exception where a
time is written numerically, the 24-hour clock is used, particularly
where precision is important.  An unusual exception is that television
listings in the printed media normally use 12-hour time (without AM/PM
indicator) but the same publication would use 24-hour time in a weather
forecast.

In the en_GB locale, running evolution, appearance of 12-hour time with
AM/PM indicator is an oddity and seems wrong in the message pane.

The panel clock can be changed to show 24-hour time, but this is not
possible in evolution.

Note that selecting British English in KDE sets 24-hour time by default.

** Affects: evolution (upstream)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

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Locale en_GB gives 12-hour am/pm time
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48128