Thanks for the quick reply. Will use your suggestions. Noam
From: Bishop Bettini [mailto:bishop.bett...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 6:49 PM To: Noam Arad <noam.a...@kaltura.com> Cc: 29...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#29589: date %k adds extra space for single digits hours On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Noam Arad <noam.a...@kaltura.com<mailto:noam.a...@kaltura.com>> 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
