On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Hank Knox <hank.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The example looks like: > > > > $ date > > Sun Jun 3 10:27:39 JST 2007 > > $ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 date > > dimanche 3 juin 2007, 10:27:33 (UTC+0900) > > > > but when I run it on my own system, I see the following (note that on my > > system, LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 and all LC_* environment variables are the same): > > > > $ date > > Tue Mar 3 21:56:39 EST 2020 > > $ LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 date > > Tue Mar 3 21:56:58 EST 2020 > > > > Note that output in both cases in identical. The man page for date clearly > > says > > that date relies on LC_TIME and this works as expected: > > Works fine here on a default configured Debian system. > So I suspect there is some configuration difference on your system, which > causes this.
Could it depend on which language environments you have installed? On my Devuan, I have English and Canadian French, and here the fr_CA gives me a date in French and the fr_FR is the one that geves me English (presumably taken from the C envirnoment) -- hendrik > > Thus the doc is correct; closing this bug. > > Holger > > > -- > Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> > PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076 >
