Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster
On 2019-09-10, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2019-09-10 22:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>
> The default format very much depends on your locale. In the en_US.UTF-8
> locale I also see the difference, but I think it's a bug fix. The
> buster output looks more like what an American user would expect. If
> you don't like it, set LC_TIME to something else, e.g. en_GB.UTF-8.
You'd assume Americans would be less bewildered without the
"military-style" 24 clock (I remember old dad quizzing me when I was a
kid: "What time's 1700 hours?"), but then again our rather unique
habit of putting the month before the day (as in mm-dd-yyyy) is reversed
by the upgrade, so it seems to be a tie cultural imperialism-wise.
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
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