Tony Mountifield wrote: > > In article <429fd6a2-d125-c231-b066-14a398da4aa9 at moving-picture.com>, > James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote: >> 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