the date command

[Peter Teuben]

On 6/12/20 11:35 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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


quite possibly i need to reboot then. I see my uptime is 20 days.