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On Thursday 12 May 2011 22:48:04 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 12/5/2011, at 8:41pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 12 May 2011 18:06:27 Stroller wrote: |
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> >> Could you possibly post the output of `date +"%l:%M%P"`? |
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> >> |
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> >> In doing so you'd be doing me a favour. |
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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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Shouldn't the former say pm at the end? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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