Please note that for 5 years or so Ubuntu has provided GUIs for setting language on one hand, and the formats related locale categories as a whole on the other hand, separately. It's true that there has been no GUI for setting the various formats related locale categories independently. OTOH, I have followed the language/locale related bug reports and Ask Ubuntu questions closely for quite a while, and my impression is that few users would rate that feature high. (It's also possible to fine tune the settings by editing e.g. ~/.profile.)
It should be noted that the example in the summary of this bug report - changing 12/24-hour time and date format independently - can't be accomplished by picking the different locale categories individually anyway, since both are controlled by LC_TIME. To do that we would either need to add a feature that creates and maintains a custom locale for each user, or handle it in respective application. As a first step, to make some progress and make it possible to fix bug #1350275, I would recommend that a GUI is added to ubuntu-system- settings for simply selecting regional formats independently from selecting the display language. As illustrated by Alexey's workaround, the backend in accountsservice for such a feature is already in place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1392699 Title: Can't change locale settings (e.g. language, 12/24-hour time, date format) independently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libc/+bug/1392699/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
