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Re: date default output format : locale-dependency
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: date default output format : locale-dependency |
Date: |
12 Nov 2000 11:04:50 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Thanks for pointing that out!
I've just added a comment to that effect, instead.
Index: date.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/shellutils/src/date.c,v
retrieving revision 1.98
retrieving revision 1.99
diff -u -r1.98 -r1.99
--- date.c 2000/10/26 22:36:39 1.98
+++ date.c 2000/11/12 10:02:29 1.99
@@ -461,6 +461,13 @@
else
{
char *date_fmt = DATE_FMT_LANGINFO ();
+ /* Do not wrap the following literal format string with _(...).
+ For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset, LC_TIME="POSIX",
+ and LANG="ko_KR". In that case, POSIX.2 says that LC_TIME
+ determines the format and contents of date and time strings
+ written by date, which means "date" must generate output
+ using the POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date"
+ to use a Korean translation of the format. */
format = *date_fmt ? date_fmt : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
}
}
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
| > From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
| > Date: 11 Nov 2000 09:00:55 +0100
|
| > I'll probably go ahead and add _() regardless,
| > for those systems that lack _DATE_FMT.
|
| Adding _() doesn't sound right to me, as it would cause "date" to not
| conform to POSIX in some cases. For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset,
| LC_TIME="POSIX", and LANG="ko_KR". In that case, POSIX.2 says that
| LC_TIME determines the format and contents of date and time strings
| written by date, which means "date" must generate output using the
| POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date" to use a Korean
| translation of the format.