On Monday 14 July 2003 11:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:04:27 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Red Hat 9 Time format
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Actually, I attempted to change the format to 12-hour in X, and it
> displays the time properly in 12 hour format in the Window Manager,
> however when I use command line utils, such as uptime and even date,
> the time is still in 24 hour format.
> How can I change this system-wide.. hwclock does not seem to work.
> Any suggestions?
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> AJ
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> On Sunday 13 July 2003 09:36, AJ wrote this in an attempt to be witty
> and informative:
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> > How about without the GUI, I do not use X?
> > I am looking for what config file stores this parameter.
>
> <snip>
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> > Perhaps clock is what you are looking for (on the command line,
> type > clock)
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> --__--__--
man date; man bash
Actually, time is what it is. Period. Time is maintained internally as
the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00 UDT 1/1/1970 ) and anything
that gets used or displayed is derived from that.
If, at the command line you enter "date +%r' '%z' '%D" (w/o the double
quotes), you'll get the date in this format:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$ date +%r' '%z' '%D
12:25:18 PM -0500 07/14/03
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$
Or, format it however you want. Then, if you want to make the change
"permanent", simply make an alias:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$ alias date='date +%r" "%z" "%D'
and try it out
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$ date
12:28:39 PM -0500 07/14/03
Now, since that's likely not what you wanted, remove the alias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$ unalias date
and verify that everything is back as it was when it came from the Redhat
factory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$ date
Mon Jul 14 12:29:03 CDT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rj]$
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