> -----Original Message----- > > > 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.
[Cygwin's locale database is Windows' locale database] On my Windows 7 machine, Control Panel, Region and Language, Formats shows Short time: h:mm tt Long time: h:mm:ss tt AM Symbol: AM PM Symbol: PM This is the standard English (United States) setting. 24 hour format is represented in Windows by either H:mm or HH:mm. Shouldn't ls -l therefore be using a 12 hour 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
