IncusOS 24H Timeformat

n1ete · March 21, 2026, 4:35pm

Is it possible to set a 24H timeformat for OS logs in IncusOS?

AM/PM timeformat is way to incosistent for server logs imo especciallly when it comes to day changes.

stgraber · March 21, 2026, 5:08pm

Where are you seeing AM/PM?

stgraber · March 21, 2026, 5:09pm

Both on-screen and remote logs show in 24h format here.

n1ete · March 21, 2026, 6:21pm

Oh true the CLI output also gives me 24h timeformat here, but webui under OS → logs wont.

stgraber · March 21, 2026, 6:28pm

Looking at the code, we rely on toLocaleString for formatting, so it’s the browser doing that…

github.com/zabbly/incus-ui-canonical

src/pages/os/OSLogs.tsx

main


      
          import type { FC } from "react";
          import { Spinner, useNotify } from "@canonical/react-components";
          import { useQuery } from "@tanstack/react-query";
          import { fetchDebugLogs } from "api/os";
          import NotificationRow from "components/NotificationRow";
          import type { IncusOSLog } from "types/os";
          import { queryKeys } from "util/queryKeys";
          
          function formatTimestamp(us: string) {
            const ms = Number(us) / 1000;
            return new Date(ms).toLocaleString(undefined, {
              month: "short",
              day: "2-digit",
              hour: "2-digit",
              minute: "2-digit",
              second: "2-digit",
            });
          }

n1ete · March 21, 2026, 6:32pm

Oh okay, then i have to find out how to set a 24h timeformat with not changing the language of my browser to something else then english. I guess this is out of scope of incus then.
Thanks for your quick response as always!

n1ete · March 21, 2026, 7:22pm

As a follow up on this, i was not able to get 24h timeformat working in the browser (chromium). Setting the Browser language to either US (Canada) or Germany — both should give me a 24h timeformat but had no luck with those changes.
So i checked settings of my Desktop Environment (KDE) and /etc/locale.conf All those settings seems to be correct and i am not sure what else i could check at that point and wont give it much further attention because its really a low priority thing here on my side.
Anyway, if the timeformat in the Incus webUI depends on changing the language in a browser it might would make sense to enforce it with a setting?