Unsupported date format

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I'm not sure what's going on here.

In lp:~charlesk/indicator-datetime/lp-1196059, I'm expanding that error message to include the format string that indicator-datetime-service is having trouble with. Could you please update this ticket with that new information after this patch lands?

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (13.10.0+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * start tracking failure-to-connect-to-bus errors on indicator-
    datetime. (LP: #1227519)
  * When an unsupported date format is being used, improve the error
    message to also include the unsupported date format so that users
    can include it in their bug reports. (LP: #1196059)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 267
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 04:27:40 +0000

Hi
I'm not sure to follow you there.
Did you find the bug, or did you simply made the error "more meaningful" for better analysis ?

Because I recently moved to 13.10, and I'm facing exactly the same issue as originally described by Fabio (above).
Only difference is that, when I try to select anything in the format but the time (using gnome-control-center date&time module), the error message displayed in the panel is looking like this one :
      Unsupported date format "%b %e %H:%M:%S"

I'm using a package newer than the one described just above:
ii indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1 amd64 Simple clock

What should I do ?
Thanks

I can confirm this is still present in some cases. I don't have the problem on my standard desktop machine running Saucy, but I do have it on my Acer C720 Chromebook running Saucy.

indicator-datetime:
  Installed: 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages

I get "unsupported date format "%a %b %e %H:%M"" when I try to enable weekday, day, and month.

Perplexingly, the same format works just fine from the terminal:

me@chrubuntu:~$ date +"%a %b %e %H:%M"
Mon Feb 10 16:22

Is the indicator referencing a different date command?

I had this problem, and also had another problem related with the use of UTF-8 in my filesystem. I didn't think there was a link between both, but solving the second problem solved the first.
My system was not using UTF-8 even if my etc/defaul/locale said so.

My problem is described here and the solution to it is nicely explained there as well.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/426650/clementine-not-playing-certain-files/431630?noredirect=1#comment560786_431630

I found that this did not work, even with the fixed package, like the commenter in comment #7. I did manage to get it working:

I noticed that my LANGUAGE environment variable had "en" in it twice, e.g.: LANAGUAGE="en<newline>en". I thought that was a bit odd. This was only present when I logged in via the GUI -- it was not present if I logged in on a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 then log in).

In the System Settings -> Language Support, I noticed that "English" was the highest priority language in the Language tab, but Regional Formats tab had "English (United Kingdom)". I put "English (United Kingdom)" at the top of the list in the Languages tab, click Apply System Wide. This seemed to resolve it for me.

I think something odd happens when you have a different primary locale for the Language and Regional Settings tab.

Once I made those changes, I could set the date & time indicator to include the day of the week, date and month without any errors. That did not work before.