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Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

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Greg Wooledge (12020-04-29):
> No, this is not a viable solution.  It will completely hinder your
> ability to use date with other format arguments, and it will not
> address the underlying problem, which is in the locale definition used
> by strftime(3) and similar pieces of libc.  (There are other programs
> that are affected by this, not just date(1).)

Very well said.

> Setting LC_TIME=C is a much better answer.

Not setting LANG is an even better answer.

Seriously, except for LC_CTYPE, which would be better be encoded as part
of the TERM variable, and LC_MESSAGES when the translations happen to be
half decent, all locales category are some variant of
LB_BREAK_SOMETHING.

More than 20 years ago, if you were to build on Objective Caml
interpreter with Gtk+ libraries, then "let pi = 3.14;;" would cause pi
to be equal to 3.0, just because of LC_BREAK_SOMETHING.

If you want a system that works, set LC_CTYPE, and leave everything else
alone.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-04-29 03:40 +0200
  Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-04-29 03:50 +0200
    Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-04-29 07:00 +0200
      Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-29 13:50 +0200
        Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-29 14:10 +0200
          Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-29 19:10 +0200
            Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-29 19:20 +0200
              Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-30 10:30 +0200
                Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-30 13:20 +0200
                Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-30 17:10 +0200
        Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-04-29 16:00 +0200
          Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-29 16:30 +0200
            Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-04-29 18:20 +0200
  Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-04-29 08:20 +0200
    Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-29 14:10 +0200
      Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-29 14:20 +0200
    Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-29 15:10 +0200
      Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-04-29 18:30 +0200
    Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-04-29 15:10 +0200
  Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster. James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2020-05-01 18:30 +0200

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