Tony Mountifield wrote:

In article 429fd6a2-d125-c231-b066-14a398da4aa9@moving-picture.com, James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com wrote:

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Just noticed that the output of 'date' is different between CentOS 6 and 7 when using the 'en_GB' locale - e.g.:

CentOS 6:

% LANG=en_GB date Thu Nov 15 11:42:46 GMT 2018 % LANG=en_US date Thu Nov 15 11:42:56 GMT 2018

CentOS 7:

% LANG=en_GB date Thu 15 Nov 11:43:07 GMT 2018 % LANG=en_US date Thu Nov 15 11:43:11 GMT 2018

i.e. with LANG=en_GB on CentOS 7, the day and month are swapped when compared with CentOS 6

Any one know why the en_GB locale has changed between CentOS 6 and 7 ?

Thanks

James Pearson

Looks like a simple oversight or bug in RHEL 6 that was fixed for 7. The latter is correct for UK standard usage. CentOS just follows RHEL.

It is defined in the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB

CentOS 6 has:

date_fmt "<U0025><U0061><U0020><U0025><U0062><U0020><U0025><U0065>/

which translates to "%a %b %e", e.g. "Thu Nov 15"

CentOS 7 has:

date_fmt "<U0025><U0061><U0020><U0025><U0065><U0020><U0025><U0062>/

which translates to "%a %e %b", e.g. "Thu 15 Nov"

Thanks - I guess I was so used to the RHEL/CentOS 6 format, I didn't realise it wasn't British :-)

James Pearson