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



On 2019-09-12, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 07:31:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> Even more astonishing is the fact that the US Government switched
>> their am/pm meanings sometime between 2000 and 2008, which shows
>> just how ambiguous they are.
>
> [citation needed]
>
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#cite_note-26

 The style manual of the United States Government Printing Office used 12 a.m.
 for noon and 12 p.m. for midnight until its 2008 edition, when it reversed
 these designations,[14][15] later maintained in its 2016 revision.[23]


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