On Saturday 27 June 2009, my mailbox was graced by a missive
from Eric Jackson <
eric-jackson@...> 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.
> > " date +%r" ?
> Several people answered this question with a clear explanation. I don't
> understand this solution. Can someone please explain this formula? Right
> now I have no clue what this means.
This is the command to get the system to display the imes as per your request,
in a console or in a script.
It was not clear from your question that waht you wanted was to change the
time the WM displays.
Cheers,
Ron.
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