Sorry for the previous incomplete mail. So my problem is that date(1) outputs AM/PM style dates, whereas ls -l uses 24 hour times.
$ ls -l rtos_benchmark.lst -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 mchn1350 Domain Users 263 Aug 31 13:14 rtos_benchmark.lst* $ date Wed, Aug 31, 2016 1:39:35 PM $ echo $LC_TIME $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 Shouldn't they be using the same format? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple