[Touch-packages] [Bug 1769288] Re: indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese

2018-05-05 Thread Joe Carey
So, it seems the root is that Japan uses ISO dating typically, even handwritten, and the new default uses not ISO, and there's no GUI option to set it as such. Not so much a bug as a design choice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, wh

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1769288] Re: indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese

2018-05-05 Thread Joe Carey
Hey, from https://askubuntu.com/questions/237941/how-to-configure-the- clock-date-format-to-iso-8601-in-unity I was able to sort this manually: There's no easy way to do it in the GUI. One can either use dconf-editor (which is GUI-ish), and edit two keys in /com/canonical/indicator/datetime (time

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1769288] [NEW] indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese

2018-05-04 Thread Joe Carey
Public bug reported: The date should be (and has been in previous Ubuntu versions) displayed as follows (for YMD): 2018年5月4日 (the symbols clearly mean year, month, day). Instead, they're displayed weirdly as "5月 4 2018" This is not the way a date would ever be written in Japanese. In gnome this