Adding a option to change to 24 hour format in Debian

[bungadrum]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The latest version of Debian doesn't ship with a 24h format, but with 12 hour AM/PM instead. It takes a lot of messing in the terminal to change it. I use the EU format not the US one can you add a easy way to change that. Unlike Ubuntu Debian doesn't configure the Locale for you in the installer even if you set your location outside of US. Debian is very messy when it comes to changing and reconfiguring locales and time formats can you make it simpler for regular use?

Describe the solution you'd like

Adding a update/change locale option and a alternative to the US time. Similar when you do dpkg-reconfigure locales it would list all available locales and you would pick and change to one that suits your needs.

Examples:
update-locale LC_TIME=C.UTF-8

LC_TIME to en_GB.UTF-8

Describe alternatives you've considered

Listing all Locale options under Settings in Linutil. This would mostly be for Debian and Arch users. There could be a Locale category with available options as well.

Additional context

N/A

Checklist

• I checked for duplicate issues.
• I checked already existing discussions.
• This feature is not included in the roadmap.

[alexanderbrown21]

i have had a look and there is no settings option, where we you see this reside?

[alexanderbrown21]

what are your opinions @ChrisTitusTech on such a change, could a separate section be added for such?

[bungadrum]

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=143572
https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
https://serverfault.com/questions/54591/how-to-install-change-locale-on-debian

[alexanderbrown21]

in my honest opinion it sounds like a valid change, do you plan to look at it @bungadrum ?

[alexanderbrown21]

a settings section could be useful to configure the locale but maybe we can check with @ChrisTitusTech ?

[alexanderbrown21]

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=143572 https://wiki.debian.org/Locale https://serverfault.com/questions/54591/how-to-install-change-locale-on-debian

are we sure it has locale in the installation i might have a look, i don't know if experienced this issue before?

[koibtw]

a settings section could be useful to configure the locale but maybe we can check with ChrisTitusTech ?

if you mean like linutil settings or something, we don't plan on implementing anything like that and i don't think it would be useful in any way.
as for a locale changing script, i think it's a good idea to modify US Locale Setup to support other locales.
if any of you are willing to work on this, go ahead :)

oh and @alexanderbrown21 please @ me next time, not chris

[001101]

date still shows 12h

[bungadrum]

Is something like this doable ? MX Linux has it