On Nov 8 19:12, Eric Backus wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > On Nov 7 20:38, Eric Backus wrote: > > > Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert <at> alum.mit.edu> writes: > > > > > > > How do I make this work, while maintaining: > > > > > > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > > > - Jim > > > > > > You might try "LANG=en_us.UTF-8" (Note the lower-case "us"). It seems to > > > > That's not correct. The result is that the locale will still be "C". > > The above LANG setting will be refused since the territory part of the > > locale specifier must be uppercase. See > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-ov > > > > Corinna > > OK, my bad. Sorry. > > > I must say I find the ls behavior quite confusing. It appears that *any* > valid setting of LANG other than "C" results in the iso time style, and > --time- > style=locale never has any effect regardless of the setting of LANG. > Feature? > or defect?
Dunno, but I admit that I like the ISO date much better anyway. It's more clear and independent of locale specific differences to express a date. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
