Thanks. Will give this a try. Matthew > On Sep 14, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
