On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:06:56PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I mostly agree, LC_CTYPE is the main thing I'm interested in with locales, > except for one other thing. Date format is *very* important.
No, if it is unambiguous. > > To explain, my parents' anniversary is 8/1/63. Shall I congratulate them in > August, or in January? > and is it 1863, 1963 or 2063? (just joking :-)) Yes, date format is important but whoever designes his software to display 8/1/63 should be shot, locale or no locale. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
