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On 13/5/2011, at 8:32pm, Mick wrote:
>>> ...
>>> $ date +"%l:%M%P"
>>> 8:39
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> =46rom `man date`:
>>=20
>>       %l     hour ( 1..12)
>>=20
>> ...
>>       %M     minute (00..59)
>> ...
>>=20
>>       %p     locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not =
known
>>=20
>>       %P     like %p, but lower case
>>=20
>> I'd be curious to compare with the output of `date +"%r"` on your =
system,
>> but you probably actually want to set:
>>=20
>>  LANG=3D"en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_TIME=3D"POSIX"
>>=20
>> in order to get the correct results.
>=20
> Hmm ... I've just set my locale as you suggest and get:
>=20
> $ date +"%l:%M%P"
> 8:29
>=20
> (it's 20:29 right now)
>=20
> and=20
>=20
> $ date +"%r"
> 08:31:28

Sorry, didn't see this message before sending my reply to your previous =
one.=20

Yes, it should say "pm" at the end, but did you reboot before checking?

I believe these are sourced at startup in a way that renders this =
necessary.

You *may* be able to `export LC_TIME=3D"POSIX"` in a shell, but I won't =
swear to it.

Stroller.