Package: gsettings-desktop-schemas
Version: 46~beta-1
Severity: normal

Dear Debian GNOME Maintainers,

upgrading from version 45.0-2 to this version introduces a regression:
with LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 now a 12-hour time format (instead of 24-hour)
is used, for example, in thunderbird.

Is it intended? If so, is there a reason?

Regards,
Jörg.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.7.4 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.utf8, LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gsettings-desktop-schemas depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-4+b1

gsettings-desktop-schemas recommends no packages.

gsettings-desktop-schemas suggests no packages.

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Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/55
Control: tags -1 + upstream

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 11:02:42 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

upgrading from version 45.0-2 to this version introduces a regression:
with LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 now a 12-hour time format (instead of 24-hour)
is used, for example, in thunderbird.

Is it intended?

Sort of: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/commit/73e83eae294066266b98b80f525a88a5be3b38dd
(presumably the en_GB translation is one of many that have not been
updated to translate '12h' to '24h').

From the upstream change:

"Translators: you will want to translate this from '12h' to '24h' if
your locale uses a 24-hour clock. Yes, it's a shame that we have to
do this when in theory the locale already knows how to format time,
but this is a pragmatic solution."

I don't think this is actually a pragmatic solution for anyone except
en_US speakers, so I've opened an upstream issue asking for a rethink.

smcv

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Hello Simon,

thank you very much for taking care.

Regards,
Jörg.

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Control: severity -1 serious

By the way, as a workaround, you can either:
1. Open the GNOME Settings app. Click System in the sidebar. Then
click Date & Time and change the Time Format.
2. Or run this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format '24h'

While this is perhaps a minor issue, it is disruptive enough that we
can delay lettting gsettings-desktop-schemas migrate to Testing, even
if this ends up being the code that we ultimately use. So I'm bumping
the severity for now.

This will also delay the latest version of gnome-control-center from
reaching Testing so this is temporary.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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