Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)

[Markus Hoenicka]

At 2016-08-31 13:41, Schwarz, Konrad was heard to say:
> Sorry for the previous incomplete mail.
> 
> So my problem is that date(1) outputs AM/PM style dates, whereas ls -l
> uses 24 hour times.
> 
> $ ls -l rtos_benchmark.lst
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 mchn1350 Domain Users 263 Aug 31 13:14 
> rtos_benchmark.lst*
> $ date
> Wed, Aug 31, 2016  1:39:35 PM
> $ echo $LC_TIME
> 
> $ echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> 
> Shouldn't they be using the same format?
> 
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date has a ton of options to format the output including the 12/24 h 
style, , see 'man date'.

regards,
Markus

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