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From: "Schwarz, Konrad" <konrad DOT schwarz AT siemens DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:23:35 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schwarz, Konrad (CT RDA ITP SES-DE)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:51 PM
> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: RE: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Schwarz, Konrad (CT RDA ITP SES-DE)
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 1:42 PM
> > To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> > Subject: RE: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)
> >
> > Sorry for the previous incomplete mail.
> >
> > So my problem is that date(1) outputs AM/PM style dates, whereas ls -
> l
> > uses 24 hour times.
> >
> > $ ls -l rtos_benchmark.lst
> > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 mchn1350 Domain Users 263 Aug 31 13:14
> > rtos_benchmark.lst*
> > $ date
> > Wed, Aug 31, 2016  1:39:35 PM
> > $ echo $LC_TIME
> >
> > $ echo $LANG
> > en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > Shouldn't they be using the same format?
> 
> Further experimentation shows that they
> do indeed use the same format in the POSIX locale, (LANG=C), as
> required by that standard.
> 
> However, I still think it is an ugly inconsistency for them to differ
> in the en_US.UTF-8 locale (which I assume is the default locale in
> Cygwin).

Still further investigation shows that on SUSE Linux, with LANG=en_US.UTF-8,
both of these utilities consistently, if counter-intuitively, display 24 hour time.

So I think the problem lies in Cygwin's locale database.

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