On Thursday 12 May 2011 22:48:04 Stroller wrote: > On 12/5/2011, at 8:41pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 12 May 2011 18:06:27 Stroller wrote: > >> Could you possibly post the output of `date +"%l:%M%P"`? > >> > >> In doing so you'd be doing me a favour. > > > > $ date +"%l:%M%P" > > 8:39 > > > > That's the wall-clock time (p.m.) in my local time-zone. What Americans > > call daylight savings time, though how they imagine any time is saved I > > don't know. > > From `man date`: > > %l hour ( 1..12) > > ... > %M minute (00..59) > ... > > %p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known > > %P like %p, but lower case > > I'd be curious to compare with the output of `date +"%r"` on your system, > but you probably actually want to set: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > > in order to get the correct results.
Hmm ... I've just set my locale as you suggest and get: $ date +"%l:%M%P" 8:29 (it's 20:29 right now) and $ date +"%r" 08:31:28 Shouldn't the former say pm at the end? -- Regards, Mick
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