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Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:04:55 -0400
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On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:49 am, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > you want me to give it a spin into the current Gentoo patchset for
> > coreutils-5.3.0 ?
>
> Yes, please, if that's not too much trouble.  The idea here is to get
> some real-user experience with --time-style="locale" defaulting to
> long-iso if one's locale settings are messed up.  Maybe Gentoo users
> never mess up their locales, so they'll never notice any difference;
> but that'll be a data point too.  Let's put it this way: if the patch
> causes problems with Gentoo users then we can be pretty sure that it
> won't fly elsewhere and we should fix it before committing to it.

ok, ive replaced the existing locale patch with the new one you posted in the 
latest unstable Gentoo ebuild

guess let it cook for a month or so and see if anyone notices
-mike




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