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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Arch General <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: matthew dyer <ilovecountrymusic483@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: 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@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 > --
