Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal On one system I log into (alas, I can't find which one it was!), the date manpage mentions that date %D is considered bad because of internationalisation issues. America is the only country to use %m/%d/%y. Since American programmers seem to assume its a good format to use in their scripts, it would be a good idea if the manpage in debian came with a big fat warning like: "%D is considered bad because it is ambigious internationally for 12 days of each month -- most of the world have traditionally interpreted dates as %d/%m/%y. Use something like `date --rfc-3339=date' or %Y/%m/%d if you wish to uniquely identify a date, which has the bonus of sorting trivially".
Then I can go submit a bug for the reports generated by checksecurity :) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-2 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
