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

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2019-09-11, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> 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
                   24-hour clock
> 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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