> -----Original Message----- > From: Schwarz, Konrad (CT RDA ITP SES-DE) > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:51 PM > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: RE: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Schwarz, Konrad (CT RDA ITP SES-DE) > > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 1:42 PM > > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > > Subject: RE: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1) > > > > 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? > > Further experimentation shows that they > do indeed use the same format in the POSIX locale, (LANG=C), as > required by that standard. > > However, I still think it is an ugly inconsistency for them to differ > in the en_US.UTF-8 locale (which I assume is the default locale in > Cygwin).
Still further investigation shows that on SUSE Linux, with LANG=en_US.UTF-8, both of these utilities consistently, if counter-intuitively, display 24 hour time. So I think the problem lies in Cygwin's locale database. -- 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
