On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:53:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Adding > > alias date='date +"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y"' > > to one's .bashrc or /etc/bashrc should get the OP what he wants.
No, this is not a viable solution. It will completely hinder your ability to use date with other format arguments, and it will not address the underlying problem, which is in the locale definition used by strftime(3) and similar pieces of libc. (There are other programs that are affected by this, not just date(1).) Setting LC_TIME=C is a much better answer. unicorn:~$ locale | grep -v \"$ LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE= LC_ALL= unicorn:~$ date Wed 29 Apr 2020 07:43:23 AM EDT unicorn:~$ export LC_TIME=C unicorn:~$ date Wed Apr 29 07:44:00 EDT 2020 unicorn:~$ unset LC_TIME unicorn:~$ printf '%()T\n' -1 07:45:12 AM unicorn:~$ export LC_TIME=C unicorn:~$ printf '%()T\n' -1 07:45:31 And so on.
