Dapper clock and locales

[Keith Powell]

Following my previous postings, I have been doing some experiments, to 
try to find out if I can get my panel clock to use the 12 hour system 
rather than the 24 hour.

First of all, I edited the various clock_applet files and the schemas 
files, changing from 24Hour to 12Hour. It didn't do anything.

So, as Dapper is on my "experimenting" hard drive, I reinstalled it 
using English-United States as the installation language, rather than 
English-United Kingdom. The clock was now using the 12Hour system and 
12Hour was an item in the clock's preferences menu. I changed the 
Time Zone to London and altered the clock to read "our time". It 
still showed 12Hour. However, I found that the keyboard was set up as 
an American one rather than a British one. Changed the keyboard 
layout in the System -> Administration menu, but it didn't change - 
the keyboard stayed American.

Next I ran  locale-gen en_GB.ISO-8859-15. 12 hour clock, but still the 
wrong keyboard. 

Finally, I changed the default language in the System menu to British 
English. Keyboard was now correct, but the clock was back to showing 
the time in the 24 hour system, and the 12Hour option had disappeared 
from the clock's preferences.

At this point I have given up!

It appears that the Dapper developers don't think we use the 12 hour 
clock system in the United Kingdom - unless it is simply an error. 
This comment is not a criticism of the developers, who are doing an 
excellent job with Ubuntu.

Please, developers, give us our 12 hour clock back.  :-(

Cheers

Keith