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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 19933@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19933: LC_TIME category in Coreutils
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:01:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj827w2s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54EBA670.4040507@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:15:12 -0800")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> skribis:

> On 02/23/2015 01:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I suspect this isn’t needed.
>
> This is needed so that 'ls -l' can output a date format suitable for
> the current locale.  These formats aren't part of glibc and so are not
> in glibc's LC_TIME information.  The default formats for the C locale
> are "%b %e  %Y" for older files and "%b %e %H:%M" for newer files, but
> the formats differ in other locales (e.g., Dutch uses "%e %b" instead
> of "%b %e").

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-24 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-10 18:06 Locales not working Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 18:30 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-11 20:39   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-12 17:38     ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-15  0:52     ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-23 21:28       ` LC_TIME category in Coreutils Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-23 22:01         ` bug#19933: " Andreas Schwab
2015-02-24 23:07           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-23 22:15         ` bug#19933: " Paul Eggert
2015-02-24 23:01           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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