bug#35078: Possible bug in the date command, to do with %p

[Nicholas Joll]

Package: date
Version: GNU coreutils 8.28

The manual for 'date' includes this:

       %p     locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

       %P     like %p, but lower case

But on my system:

     $  date +%p
    am
    $  date +%P
    am

That is: it seems impossible to get a capitalised 'AM' or 'PM'.

Might this be a problem with my locale? Here is how my locale is set:

    $  locale
    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
    LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_ALL=


My OS: (GNU-)Linux Mint 19.1 x64 Cinnamon

Yours,


Nicholas

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