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" Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org