The deskbar happily is showing the current time. But this is done in a US time format.
Having adjusted the locale to German settings and 24 hour display still nothing changed.
Where such a localizing of the time display could be done?
Indeed, I found a possibility to customize the Deskbar preferences. I have been surprised, that a such elementary and system related program like the Deskbar does overrule the locale settings for country specific time display. I would never have expected to find a time format customization within a to be localized application. Having set the locale to German consequently I wondered a lot to find the displayed time in the Deskbar still shown in US format using AM and PM suffixes.
P.S.: similar could be found in tracker windows' time stamps. Or are those windows still not localized?
[...] I have been surprised, that a such elementary and system related program like the Deskbar does overrule the locale settings for country specific time display. [...]
localization has barely begun. there isn't much to see, since the API isn't stable yet. (For now, it does not centralize date&time preferences)
NB : date&time preferences should be set up in Deskbar's preflet and also in Tracker's preflet (both are needed)
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Re: How to get a 24 hour clock display ?
Did you read the user guide ?
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/de/deskbar.html
Also it's available in English, French, German, Spanish... and it's bundled in the Haiku Alpha2 release (iso or disk-image)
Amazing, isn't it?
Regards
PS: a few interesting pages
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/keymap.html
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html
NB: the flag under the title gives access to other languages.
Re: How to get a 24 hour clock display ?
Indeed, I found a possibility to customize the Deskbar preferences. I have been surprised, that a such elementary and system related program like the Deskbar does overrule the locale settings for country specific time display. I would never have expected to find a time format customization within a to be localized application. Having set the locale to German consequently I wondered a lot to find the displayed time in the Deskbar still shown in US format using AM and PM suffixes.
P.S.: similar could be found in tracker windows' time stamps. Or are those windows still not localized?
Re: How to get a 24 hour clock display ?
[...] I have been surprised, that a such elementary and system related program like the Deskbar does overrule the locale settings for country specific time display. [...]
localization has barely begun. there isn't much to see, since the API isn't stable yet. (For now, it does not centralize date&time preferences)
NB : date&time preferences should be set up in Deskbar's preflet and also in Tracker's preflet (both are needed)