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I installed CentOS 6.4 within VMWare 7 by easy setup. Afterwards I had to change locale settings to German. Everythings works fine accept that the clock on the login screen is still in 12-hours-AM/PM-format. I want to change it to the 24-hour-format.

GDM Version is 2.30.4.

I tried the suggestions from the answers to a similiar question and another question. However, the suggested command gconf-editor seems not to provide a way to configure the clock format at the login screen.

The other command gsettings is not available in my environment. How can I obtain it?

There are other suggestions involving gdm.conf but the only gdm.conf in my environment is a XML file and not located in the directories specified in these suggestions.

At Red Hat there seems to be a support article about this issue, however bp;dr.

How can I set the login screen time to the 24 hour format?

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  • gsettings is part of the package glib2. – slm Aug 15 '13 at 13:41
  • @slm Thanks! glib2 is already installed and there is no gsettings in the file system. In gnome-control-center I did not found an appropriate option. – Claude Aug 15 '13 at 14:30

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GNOME 2

Don't know exactly how to do this but here are some things to investigate.

  1. gdm cache dir. I don't know how to change it but I found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale. Looks like there is a file dmrc which some settings related to GDM.

    for example

    My file is located here for user "saml", /var/cache/gdm/saml/dmrc.

    [Desktop]
Language=en_US.utf8
Layout=us

  2. gnome-control-center

    There are several configurations accessible through the control panel (gnome-control-center) for GNOME which may allow you to change this setting.

  3. Official docs

    The official documentation for GDM is located here for the various versions. Looking through it I didn't see a method to change the time format however.

GNOME 3

$ sudo -u gdm dbus-launch dconf write \
                 /org/gnome/desktop/interface/clock-format "\"12h\""

Change the format to '24h' for 24 hour format.

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  • Thanks a lot for your investigations! (1) in /var/cache/gdm/[user] are no files or dirs, (2) did not found anything approproated in the control center, (3) did not try. With your Gnome3 hint I tried to add clock-format but got errors. However, I tried to add the key "clock-format" manually with the gconf-editor. It doesn't work but probably because the key has not been bound to a schema. Searching on the net gsettings seems to do the job right but I failed to find a installable package. Finally I ended up installing CentOS manually with the right locale. Let you know, if it works. – Claude Aug 16 '13 at 06:59