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> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:14:06 -0800
> From: Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org>
> 
> I don't seem to be able to control my time display.
> 
> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-03-04 on palmer, modified by Debian
> 
> emacs -Q -l foo 
> 
> where foo contains
> 
> (setq display-time-24h-format t)
> (setq display-time-load-average t)
> (display-time)
> 
> I still get the same display as if I had not set the variables.

If I replace 24h with 24hr, I get what you want.

If you really used 24hr, then all I can say is that I cannot reproduce
this problem.