aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--localedata/locales/en_US7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/localedata/locales/en_US b/localedata/locales/en_US
index e71abf5..15c6354 100644
--- a/localedata/locales/en_US
+++ b/localedata/locales/en_US
@@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ t_fmt "%r"
% Appropriate AM/PM time representation (%r)
t_fmt_ampm "%I:%M:%S %p"
%
-% Appropriate date and time representation for date(1)
-date_fmt "%a %d %b %Y %r %Z"
+% Appropriate date and time representation for date(1). This is
+% different from d_t_fmt for historical reasons and has been different
+% since 2000 when date_fmt was added as a GNU extension. At the end
+% of 2018 it was adjusted to use 12H time (bug 24046) instead of 24H.
+date_fmt "%a %b %e %r %Z %Y"
%
% Strings for AM/PM
%