Want to mention another workaround. Keep US in the UI, open ~/.profile for editing, and add this line:
export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 And no, it's not a regression. Ubuntu (or GNOME) has never had a more fine tuned GUI for setting regional formats. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768678 Title: regional settings are far too restrictive Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Settings --> Region & Language --> Formats Allows me to select the country, not set the actual format.us I live in the US, so this means that I am stuck with date: mm/dd/yyyy time: HH:MM:SS AM/PM date&time: the weird format which somehow starts with week and ends with am/pm numbers: 123,456,789.00 measurements: imperial paper: us letter basically, since all paper is always "letter", no other country selection will work for me. however, I don't see why I have to be stuck with the US customary units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units - not "imperial") and "infix" date/time formats. I could set date and time formats to ISO 8601 for the last 10 years at least, and still can do it on Mac. This appears to be a regression. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-21.22-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed May 2 18:41:18 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1768678/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
