On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Noam Arad <[email protected]> wrote:
> When using date command with the format %k if the hour is single digits
> there is an extra space added.
> E.g.: date -u +"%Y/%m/%d %k:%M:%S" when run at "2017/12/06 9:16:26" will
> give the output "2017/12/06 9:16:26"
> NOTE: there are two spaces between "06" and "9".
>
This seems expected. Per the documentation as of GNU coreutils 8.22:
%k hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H
This is just a pass-thru to strftime under the hood, whose documentation
says:
%k The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to
23); single digits are preceded by a
blank. (See also %H.) (Calculated from tm_hour.) (TZ)
To format without the space, use %-k:
$ TZ=America/Whitehorse date +'%k'
8
$ TZ=America/Whitehorse date +'%-k'
8
