Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/6/24 03:24, e...@gmx.us wrote: And I can never remember if the dot means AM or PM.  I suspect it changes between implementations, or maybe I'm just very slow. Probably only really meant to show us when we are setting an alarm at night, for the morning, that the dot is on one and off

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/6/24 01:36, David Wright wrote: Along with 350M Americans! They even use just A and P over here. And a mere dot on digital clocks. (I see you've changed it already!) I've been using 24 hour time and dMMM for a long time. I used send international cheques as part of my work, and

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread eben
On 6/17/24 11:36, David Wright wrote: On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: I wonder if Keith's confusion is simply due to my MUA using "AM" and "PM" in its attribution line, and Keith not seeing the "PM". Maybe I should look into configuring that differently. Along

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:36:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > /etc/timezone is only used by some legacy programs. All the current > > ones should be using /etc/localtime instead, which is a symlink to a > > binary zoneinfo file,

Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 09:14:38AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > You asked after your /system/ clock. I don't think I can tell whether > > it's set to UTC or Local Time, but only that it is correct, whichever > > it it on. Likewise