the date command

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 16:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 16:21, Peter Teuben <teuben at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I only just noticed that the 'date' command has a new default in
> > Ubuntu.  Maybe an upstream cause, but I'm a 24h clock person, I don't
> > like the AM and PM thing.
> >
> > old style:      Fri Jun 12 10:44:45 EDT 2020
> > new style:    Fri 12 Jun 2020 10:43:51 AM EDT
> >
>
> I don't see any am/pm on my system (20.04), it shows
> $ date
> Fri 12 Jun 16:30:44 BST 2020

Further to that the docs say it gets the default format from the
system settings so I suggest you look there.

Colin