On 2025-08-24 14:33, James Feeney via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
reporting UTC in 12 hour format is just plain wrong.
No it's fine, actually. UTC is a world-wide standard; it's not local to Greenwich. Many people prefer 12-hour format, and there's nothing wrong with displaying UTC that way.
And even if I agreed with you, longstanding practice is to for "date -u" to respect the current locale, and POSIX requires this behavior. So there are good reasons for keeping the behavior the way it is.
To get the behavior you prefer, you can run "LC_ALL=C date -u", "date -u +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'", or similar commands.
