Hi,

I have two Solaris x86 (one on VM Player):

# /usr/bin/date
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:42:43 AM HKT

# /usr/bin/date
Wed May 14 07:42:45 HKT 2008

Would anyone tell me why they are? Thank you very much.

--
Johnson Chow

Mr. Chow Wing Siu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two Solaris x86 (one on VM Player):
>
> # /usr/bin/date
> Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:42:43 AM HKT
>
> # /usr/bin/date
> Wed May 14 07:42:45 HKT 2008
>
> Would anyone tell me why they are? Thank you very much.
>
> --
> Johnson Chow

Looking at the date(1) man page:



********************
Specifications of native language translations of month and
weekday names are supported. The month and weekday names
used for a language are based on the locale specified by the
environment variable LC_TIME. See environ(5).

The following is the default form for the "C" locale:

%a %b %e %T %Z %Y

For example,

Fri Dec 23 10:10:42 EST 1988
*********************

On my SPARC, which is using the C locale, I get the following.


bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/date
Wed May 14 05:08:28 BST 2008
bash-3.00$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

I don't have an x86 based box around here at the minute - I loaned my
laptop to my Dad, who was getting withdrawal symptoms after his laptop
have to go in for repair!

Dave <foo@coo.com> wrote:
> On my SPARC, which is using the C locale, I get the following.
> bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/date
> Wed May 14 05:08:28 BST 2008
> bash-3.00$ locale
> LANG=C
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_ALL=

> I don't have an x86 based box around here at the minute - I loaned my
> laptop to my Dad, who was getting withdrawal symptoms after his laptop
> have to go in for repair!
------------------------------------------

My answer:

/etc/default/init (Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:42:43 AM HKT)

TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1

/etc/default/init (Wed May 14 07:42:45 HKT 2008)

TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong
CMASK=022
LANG=C

I used jumpstart to install Solaris x86 on vmplayer. Therefore
it gives such the problem. Thanks for help.

--
Johnson Chow