Re: Setting time format

On Friday 26 June 2009, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from "olcarman@..." <olcarman@...> who wrote:

> My system time is in the 24 hour format in BIOS with no option to change to
> the 12 hour format. I'd like to have my time read in the 12 hour format in
> Mandriva One 2009, is there any way I can set it? I've looked through
> everything I can think of in both the man pages and the HOWTO's but don't
> seem to come up with anything about setting the format.
> THanks.
>
> ---- Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net

" date +%r" ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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