Dell Latitude E5570 running Ubuntu 24.04
Following a recent collection of odd behaviours I re-installed Ubuntu and all my files. The installation went smoothly. The only problem I’ve found since then is a very annoying one: all dates are in USA format of mm/dd/yy rather than the desired UK format of dd/mm/yy.
It first came to light in Thunderbird where I discovered that the format is inherited from the system-defined format. So I went to Settings where one can specify the date and time (but not the format) and 24hr or am/pm format. The latter has no effect and am/pm is shown in the top bar (Classic View).
Later I found that LibreOffice is similarly afflicted and formatting a cell to UK time format has a variable behaviour.
It may be that I missed some change to the installation process whereby I needed to specify UK format but nothing that I do seems able to change it now.
My question: Is there a way of changing the global time format or must I re-install Ubuntu?
Thanks
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