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

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: Arch General <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Cc: matthew dyer <ilovecountrymusic483 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?
>
> Thanks.  Will give this a try.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> > On Sep 14, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>

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