Re: [Bug-sysutils] %H:%M

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Ben Asselstine wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There's an item on the TODO list about %H:%M and how it's bad for
> certain locales.
> 
> The answer seems to be "%r" which may or may not be defined by the
> locale.  I suggest that we go with %R instead when %r produces 0
> bytes.
> 
> %r gives me: `03:40:56 PM'
> %R gives me `15:40'
> 
> The wall and write programs need to be fixed wrt this bug.  Does this
> seem like the Right Thing To Do?

%R does not respect the locale, so it doesn't do the right thing either.
What we want is something that will output:

%H<separator>%M<optionally am/pm>

The closest thing there is would be %X, which gives the above, but with
seconds appended as well.  Is %H<sep>%M%p really such an unusual format
for time?!


Regards: David
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