How to know the current system time format

[mabdelaal]

Hi All

Please, can any one tell me how to know the current system time format.

Thanks alot.

[divanov]

locale LC_TIME?

[vivainio]

Hi All

Please, can any one tell me how to know the current system time format.

What you probably want to do is to follow the example "examples/maemo5/datetime" in Qt package:

http://qt.gitorious.org/+qt-develope...etime/main.cpp

[mabdelaal]

Thank you all,

But what about 12/24 time format, how can i know if current system time is 12 or 24 hour.

[divanov]

But what about 12/24 time format, how can i know if current system time is 12 or 24 hour.

It's saved in GConf key /apps/clock/time-format and this is not system time format.

[mabdelaal]

Hi all,
Thanks Daniil

It worked perfectly.
Thank you again.

[vivainio]

Thank you all,

But what about 12/24 time format, how can i know if current system time is 12 or 24 hour.

Are you sure you need this information?

Normal application will just want to display a date in currently selected format (as done in the pointed example). It should never bother about these small issues.

[divanov]

Are you sure you need this information?

Normal application will just want to display a date in currently selected format (as done in the pointed example). It should never bother about these small issues.

When we speak about Maemo 5, there is system locale time format and another format set in GConf and used by all UI applications. It's very different from normal.

[vivainio]

When we speak about Maemo 5, there is system locale time format and another format set in GConf and used by all UI applications. It's very different from normal.

Qt wraps the GConf mess in calls to QLocale (as shown in the posted example), so the user can do things "normally".

(You can check the details from qlocale_maemo5.cpp, function maemo5_is24h()).

[divanov]

Qt wraps the GConf mess in calls to QLocale (as shown in the posted example), so the user can do things "normally".

(You can check the details from qlocale_maemo5.cpp, function maemo5_is24h()).

That means you cannot get real system time format.