Bug 436084

Summary:	Change in date/time format in formats KCM is not reflected in Digital Clock applet immediately
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component:	Digital Clock widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde, nate, notmart, pallaswept, postix, rakuco, strong.drum0546
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467494 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393956
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Description Alexander Potashev 2021-04-23 08:47:30 UTC

SUMMARY
There's currently no way to change date format in the digital clock without restarting Plasma. I wish Digital clock could immediately react to the change I make to the date/time format in the Formats KCM (or alternatively there could be a Digital clock-specific configuration dialog where one could change the format.)

Use case: I'm using US formats/locale, but prefer writing date in the YYYY-MM-DD format to make it less ambiguous for people across the globe. The Japanese format is pretty close and I will use it for now for date/time only.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2021-04-23 09:11:56 UTC

>Use case: I'm using US formats/locale, but prefer writing date in the YYYY-MM-DD format to make it less ambiguous for people across the globe. The Japanese format is pretty close and I will use it for now for date/time only.

Why does this result in wanting to change what's shown in the digital clock?

Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2021-05-16 20:05:59 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)
> >Use case: I'm using US formats/locale, but prefer writing date in the YYYY-MM-DD format to make it less ambiguous for people across the globe. The Japanese format is pretty close and I will use it for now for date/time only.
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> Why does this result in wanting to change what's shown in the digital clock?

I can then use the digital clock as a cheatsheet for writing the date somewhere, e.g. in a doc, without brainpower.

Wait... it seems like the digital clock's context menu has a feature to copy the current date in the clipboard, and it always includes the "2021-05-16" format. Not sure why it's always there, independent of the locale date/time.

Comment 3 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2025-01-18 11:00:57 UTC

Another, perhaps simpler use case: Plasma is set up with American English settings for all entries in Region & Language. I then right-click the digital clock applet, choose "Set Time Format" and it launches the Region & Language KCM. I expect that changing "Time" there will then update the time format in the digital clock applet since it's what launched the KCM in the first place, but nothing happens until Plasma is restarted.

Comment 4 Marco Martin 2025-01-22 12:46:08 UTC

in general on the fly language (or any other aspect of locale) change is not supported yet

Comment 5 Lenzoid 2025-06-04 21:57:03 UTC

Marco you commented:

> in general on the fly language (or any other aspect of locale) change is not supported yet

Sounds to me like when this support is on-the-fly support is added it will resolve this implicitely and I'm marking this as RESOLVED / LATER for now. If this is re-opened we should change it to a wishlist item I think.