Set 24-hour clock format in Jenkins

Question

Despite the fact that in http://<jenkins server>/systemInfo the user.timezone property value meets my actual time zone I still have 12-hour clock format.

I would like to have 24-hour clock format instead.

Does anyone have any ideas how it can be changed in Jenkins?

Thank you.

Tenaculum

Jenkins uses the browsers language, if you have it set to english (US) then change it to english (GB) – Alainaalaine

Answer 1

As @Arkain mentioned, you should specify in browser's settings the language which suits your intended time format. I had both English (US) and just English (which I thought was English (GB)), but then I realized that I should have added additional English (GB) language.

Thank you!

Tenaculum

Hmm, this seems to work only on the individual job pages, not on the pipeline view, at least with Jenkins 1.554.1. – Sweitzer

@PaŭloEbermann I believe that time format settings are applied for the whole Jenkins unless Pipeline plugin has it own settings. And yes, as a last resort you can try newer version of Jenkins. – Tenaculum

@Jonny, please notice that the answer is about specifying a language in the browser, not the clock format. The time format is affected as a result of changing a language. – Tenaculum

i tried setting US and DE web page selections in google chrome. it worked nicely on e.g. the Google search page but not at all for the Build History column of a Jenkins 2.235.5 install. – Bicknell

Answer 2

Unfortunately, this situation hasn't changed and Jenkins' date display style is still linked to the browser language as of January 2016.

On a sidenote: There's a Locale Plugin, which supposedly allows to override Jenkins' default behaviour of picking up the locale via the browser language. Although - as Greg Dubicki noted - this plugin does process a language_country_variant string, only the language part (a 2-digit ISO 639-1 language code) has an effect, and it's only defining the UI langauge. The date display format still seems to be defined solely by the browser's language.

Adowa

Actually Locale Plugin should accept and use "en_GB" setting correctly, according to its code: github.com/jenkinsci/locale-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/… ... But in my case it doesn't. :( – Cleanlimbed

Btw: "en_IE" locale would be a safer bet to get English & 24h-format, see: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62316/… – Cleanlimbed

for e.g. Ubuntu desktop or Windows: language of the UI is one item. date/time and currency formats are a separate item. sometimes dealing with them in a joint fashion can help solving some defaults. but sometimes you definitely want to override that. (BTW time zone is also something separate.) – Bicknell