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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