Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:59:13PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > LC_TIME= | etch | lenny > ------------------------------------------------- > de_DE.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007 > en_DK.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007
Is this true. My lenny/sid system gives me (I did LANG=) de_DE.UTF-8 ---------- | 19. Jan 21:32 en_DK.UTF-8 ---------- | 2007-01-19 21:32 en_DK ---------- | 2007-01-19 21:32 > en_US.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | 2007-01-19 21:32 > POSIX | Jan 19 2007 | Jan 19 2007 > C | Jan 19 2007 | Jan 19 2007 > > My state of confusion started this morning, when I was confronted with a > POSIX/C style date format using the German locales on lenny. As you can see > from the table, in lenny suddenly some locales seem to have changed from ISO > 8601 style to POSIX/C style. Is this intentional behaviour, or something that > should be reported as a bug? Again, I consider POSIX/C style to be horrible. > > Just for reference, [1] claims that "The locale support for the international > date standard of yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601 date format) is provided by the locale > called en_DK, "English in Denmark", which is a bit of joke :-)". > > Well, either this *is* a bug in the locales package (well, hope so), or the > joke from Debian reference needs an update. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html > see "9.7.6 ISO 8601 date format locale" New corresponding pages are: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch02.en.html#timestamps (released package too) http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch10.en.html#customizeddisplayoftimeanddate (new after this posting) I now stopped en_DK locale since that was days of woody. Long ago. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
