Stroller wrote:
Hi there,

Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected?

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ date +"%l:%M%P"
  1:39
$ LC_TIME="POSIX"
$ date +"%l:%M%P"
  1:39am
$

I had a single line of only LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in /etc/env.d/02locale; adding 
LC_TIME="POSIX" allows various scripts and stuff (I've written) to show the date 
properly, but I think I read somewhere that this is bad.

Thanks for any advice,

Stroller.


This is mine:

r...@fireball / # locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
r...@fireball / #

No idea about anything bad tho.  Just for comparison.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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