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’.
prev parent 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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