Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:06:37PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> after an upgrade from stretch to buster, the date default output changed on my
> system
>
> As an example:
>
> Tue Sep 10 19:50:26 CEST 2019   (stretch)
> Tue 10 Sep 2019 09:26:33 PM CEST      (buster)
>
> I am just wondering if this is a known issue or if another configuration change
> during the upgrade caused this.

date shows a localized string by default. Try 
env LANG=C date
if you want the traditional posix format.