On 12/5/2011, at 8:41pm, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 12 May 2011 18:06:27 Stroller wrote:
>
>> Could you possibly post the output of `date +"%l:%M%P"`?
>>
>> In doing so you'd be doing me a favour.
>
> $ date +"%l:%M%P"
> 8:39
>
> 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.
From `man date`:
%l hour ( 1..12)
...
%M minute (00..59)
...
%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P like %p, but lower case
I'd be curious to compare with the output of `date +"%r"` on your system, but
you probably actually want to set:
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
in order to get the correct results.
Stroller.
