On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:56:46 -0400, Matthew Dyer via arch-general wrote:

I am getting a sintax error when runn locale(1).  Locale is set to en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gebn.  At least it is uncommeted. Should I rerun the locale.-gen and see if that helps.

Hi Matthew, if I were you I would replace /etc/locale.gen by /etc/locale.gen.pacnew, uncomment the desired language/s, just in case also take a look at /etc/locale.conf and then run 'sudo locale-gen'. To get back 24 hour format (that's what I prefer over 12 hour format), I restarted my machine, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale#LC_TIME:_date_and_time_format . You might not necessarily need to restart the machine, but it doesn't harm. The output of 'localectl status' does not display the real status! However, running 'locale; echo $?; locale -a; echo $?' must not cause a syntax error, 'locale' must always return exit status '0' ;). Regards, Ralf

For us command line users the date command has lots of parameters, and bash can do aliases to save a date and/or time format you like when you get it just right. The info date command get anyone interested started. On Sat, 14 Sep 2019, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:

Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:56:06 From: matthew dyer via arch-general To: Arch General Cc: matthew dyer Subject: Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

Thanks. Will give this a try.

Matthew

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On Sep 14, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:56:46 -0400, Matthew Dyer via arch-general wrote:

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I am getting a sintax error when runn locale(1). Locale is set to en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gebn. At least it is uncommeted. Should I rerun the locale.-gen and see if that helps.

Hi Matthew,

if I were you I would replace /etc/locale.gen by /etc/locale.gen.pacnew, uncomment the desired language/s, just in case also take a look at /etc/locale.conf and then run 'sudo locale-gen'.

To get back 24 hour format (that's what I prefer over 12 hour format), I restarted my machine, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale#LC_TIME:_date_and_time_format .

You might not necessarily need to restart the machine, but it doesn't harm. The output of 'localectl status' does not display the real status!

However, running 'locale; echo $?; locale -a; echo $?' must not cause a syntax error, 'locale' must always return exit status '0' ;).

Regards, Ralf

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On 9/14/19 11:19 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

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when I look at an email such as in thunderbird, the time and date are given 24 hour format for example, 2019/14/09 11:00 rather than the u.s format I am used to.

What is the output of the locale(1) command? Also, this page may be of help.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Date_Format#Configuring_the_date.2Ftime... According to RFC 2822, the time of day in an email message is always in 24-hour format. Changing your system settings can't and won't (and IMO shouldn't) change that. If anything, I think that you'll have to change something in Thunderbird. Dan

Hi Dan,

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Also, this page may be of help. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Date_Format#Configuring_the_date.2Ftime...

According to RFC 2822, the time of day in an email message is always in 24-hour format.

That's correct.

Changing your system settings can't and won't (and IMO shouldn't) change that. If anything, I think that you'll have to change something in Thunderbird.

There could be a setting in Thunderbird, but Thunderbird could, and does according to that URL, make use of its environment through the locale's time preferences, and that's what locale(1) shows. So the correct place to change this isn't necessary Thunderbird. -- Cheers, Ralph.