[bug] cosmic-greeter ignores 24 hour time setting

[Kartonrealista]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I think this used to work. Now it always uses 12 hour time.

[joshuamegnauth54]

Do you have military time enabled in your user config? It used to default to military time only, but now it loads the clock preference from the user's config.

From my test system:

[Kartonrealista]

Do you have military time enabled in your user config? It used to default to military time only, but now it loads the clock preference from the user's config.

It happens only on startup, if you reach the lock screen from suspend, logout or any other means it works correctly.

[Nashenas88]

I have the opposite issue. Mine always shows 24-hour time even when I have region and language configured to 12-hour time.

[joshuamegnauth54]

@Kartonrealista Sorry I missed the notification for this. Do the logs have any useful information, like failing to load the config? Also, is there any other weirdness - like using the wrong background? Finally, if you have more than one account, do those work?

@Nashenas88 That makes this even more puzzling. I'll try making more user accounts to see if I can replicate.

[Brandon168]

I have the opposite problem, I have Cosmic alpha 6 set to 12 hour time but the cosmic greater is stuck on 24h. I can't figure out how to change it.

[Brandon168]

I still thing this is a bug, since it's not respecting the locale settings found in cosmic settings, but I did find a way to change this to 12H in the meantime.

I added this line to /etc/greetd/config.toml and it switched from 24H to 12H for me after logging out.
time_format = "%I:%M %p"

I hope this work around helps someone.

Update:
This work around only works if logged out. If logged in but locked, it's reverting to 24H. If I log out, it goes to 12H. Strange.