[arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

[Ralf Mardorf]

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