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On 13/5/2011, at 8:32pm, Mick wrote: |
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>>> ... |
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>>> $ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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>>> 8:39 |
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>>> |
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>>> That's the wall-clock time (p.m.) in my local time-zone. What Americans |
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>>> call daylight savings time, though how they imagine any time is saved I |
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>>> don't know. |
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>> From `man date`: |
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>> %l hour ( 1..12) |
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>> ... |
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>> %M minute (00..59) |
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>> ... |
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>> %p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known |
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>> %P like %p, but lower case |
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>> I'd be curious to compare with the output of `date +"%r"` on your system, |
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>> but you probably actually want to set: |
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>> LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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>> LC_TIME="POSIX" |
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>> in order to get the correct results. |
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> Hmm ... I've just set my locale as you suggest and get: |
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> $ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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> 8:29 |
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> (it's 20:29 right now) |
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> and |
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> $ date +"%r" |
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> 08:31:28 |
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Sorry, didn't see this message before sending my reply to your previous one. |
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Yes, it should say "pm" at the end, but did you reboot before checking? |
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I believe these are sourced at startup in a way that renders this necessary. |
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You *may* be able to `export LC_TIME="POSIX"` in a shell, but I won't swear to it. |
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Stroller. |
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