Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

[Jim Meyering]

"Bo Borgerson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit
> `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in
> absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable).
>
> The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the
> default English time-style is used is when there is no `hard locale'
> in effect for time (LC_TIME=C or POSIX).
>
> In case it might be desirable to have the time-style default to N_("%b
> %e  %Y") and  N_("%b %e %H:%M") (the `defaults') rather than
> 'posix-long-iso' ("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" in all cases) for locales that
> begin with 'en_', I've included a small patch that provides this
> behavior.

Thanks.
That feels pretty kludgy.  I hope we end up with something cleaner.

BTW, such a patch would almost certainly require doc and test changes
(a test addition, at least), as well as a NEWS entry.  If no one comes
up with something better in the next few weeks, we can revisit this.