On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 14:25:51 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So I have this digital clock up there in my panel, and in the virtual > machine here running Slackware I also have one. The one under Debian shows > 00:00 when it hits midnight, while the one under Slackware shows 12:00... > > I wonder what decisions were made to give this result?
As a reminder, the locales provided by libc6 in Debian have changed in the last couple releases. hobbit:~$ LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 date Tue Jun 25 02:50:33 PM EDT 2024 hobbit:~$ LC_TIME=C date Tue Jun 25 14:50:37 EDT 2024 Note that LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 uses a 12-hour clock by default now. This was not the case until recently. Before that, it used a 24-hour clock just like LC_TIME=C does. I've exported LC_TIME=C into my environment to get the previous behavior back. That's my choice. Perhaps your Slackware system is using a different libc version than your Debian system. Or you've got LC_TIME in your environment on one or the other or both. It could also just be a different version of your clock program. Or a wholly different clock program.
