'w' use 24h

Sparkee

Sparkee

'w' command returns time in 12h format, how can this be changed to use the 24h format? It is the same in sh, csh, bash and zsh
Code: 
% w
3:33PM  up 41 days, 21:38, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.07
USER       TTY      FROM          LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
sparkee   pts/0    192.71.118.85   3:03PM     - w
 
For me it uses 24h format.
I have set
Code: 
setenv LC_ALL de_DE.UTF-8
setenv LANG de_DE.UTF-8
so maybe you need to set a correct locale?
 
Well it seems I have too much time at the moment so I got curious...

My systems also show am/pm format for "w". Command "who" seems correct.
Normally i use :
Code: 
$ locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Så I changed locale to LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
and w then return 24h format.

Ok set locale to Danish:
Code: 
export LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
locale
ANG=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.UTF-8"

w still uses am/pm format - weird, should have been 24h.

Looking at:
Code: 
locale -k | grep am_pm
am_pm="AM;PM"

Ok - thats wrong.

Changing locale to German:
Code: 
export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
locale -k | grep am_pm
am_pm=";"
So now we are getting somewhere, the am_pm keyword is different!


Code: 
cd /usr/share/locale/da_DK.UTF-8
vi LC_TIME

find the two lines AM and PM and setting both to ""

export LANG=da_DK.UTF-8

heureka! "w" now displays 24h format.


Sounds like a PR is required.


So check your locale is set correct.
see if the keyword "am_pm" is correct and change /usr/share/local/<LANG_env> accordingly.
 
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