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

[Marco Atzeri]

On 31/08/2016 14:09, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> 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?
>>

>
> date has a ton of options to format the output including the 12/24 h
> style, , see 'man date'.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>

same for ls.

Regards
Marco

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