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-format to custom, and custom- time-format to the desired strftime directives, in your case %F %R (or, equivalently, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M)), or do it directly from the terminal with the following two commands (which, just to be clear, change the same keys): dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/time-format "'custom'" dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/custom-time-format "'%F %R I replaced %Y-%m-%d %H:%M with %Y年%m月%d日 %H:%M However, the default remains not sane :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769288 Title: indicator-datetime displays the date unnaturally in Japanese Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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 happens on the lock screen as well. If you were writing a date without the year it would be: 5月4日 it doesn't make sense to leave off the 日. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1769288/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
