Re: Setting time to 24 hour format

[Erdmut Pfeifer <e.pfeifer@science-computing.de>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:27:34AM -0600, Bryan Walton wrote:
> Does anybody know how I can set my clock so that when I type "uptime" the
> time will be shown in 24 hour time rather than as below:
> 
> walton@work:~$ uptime
>  10:25am  up 4 days,  1:32,  6 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.08


I don't think there is a way to achieve this without editing the source.
uptime is neither locale aware, nor does it have a command line option
for this.
A quick look at the source reveals that the output format is hardcoded...
The relevant fragment from whattime.c (called from uptime.c -- in the
"procps" pkg):

  pos = sprintf(buf, " %2d:%02d%s  ",                                                               
                realtime->tm_hour%12 ? realtime->tm_hour%12 : 12,                                   
                realtime->tm_min, realtime->tm_hour > 11 ? "pm" : "am");                            

I guess you'd have to change this, if the 12 hour mode really bothers
you badly enough ;)

Erdmut


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