Date wrong

[Genka28]

My "date" command produces
"Monday, November 3, 2008 5:17:05 AM EST"
how do I change it to "Mon Nov 3 10:18:16 EST 2008"

Solaris 10

Thank you

 

[KenCunningham]

man date

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[Genka28]

Thanks I know what the man pages are.

 

[AnotherAlan]

I think what Ken was pointing out is that it is clearly explained in the man pages.
Look for the -u switch.

 

[elgrandeperro]

I assume you want it for the default date output. Are you setting LC_TIME? What does locale LC_TIME return?

 

[Genka28]

echo $LC_TIME
en_US.ISO8859-1

 

[Genka28]

Alan "-u" is just a GMT switch

 

[elgrandeperro]

My understanding is that LC value should only be the standard date command with Latin characters.

First, is "date" the same as "/usr/bin/date"? Is there an alias for date? (if using csh).

% which date
% alias date

% date
% /usr/bin/date

If these check out, then is there a definition of LC_TIME in /usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1? (this is the typical path).

 

[Genka28]

Thanks, I unset the LC_DATE variable and it worked.
Thanks for the reply

 

[AnotherAlan]

Apologies, maybe I should have read your question properly.;-)

 

[elgrandeperro]

Whoops, I think i got the wrong variable. I still don't think it should change the format, so I think (at this point) something has noodled with the locale rules.