On Aug 31 14:23, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > > -----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.
If so, it would be Window's locale database. Apart from information not available on Windows (era and messages info) all other locale info is fetched from Windows. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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