On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 07:57:37 AM Michael Stone wrote: > apt-listchanges in what? If you run the stretch date on buster, you'll > get the same output. The change is that the localized string changed to > something more sensible and date uses the localized string. If a script > is relying on the output of a program like date without specifying > either the C locale or a date format, it's almost certainly doing > something wrong--
> those strings are expected to change depending on > things like locale settings, and are for humans to read, not programs. Interesting! I have no argument with what you say, it makes perfect sense, but it must be one of those things that "goes without saying" -- I can't claim to be a Linux guru, but in the years I've spent with Linux and with a fair amount of reading, I never saw that stated, nor was it ever implied enough for me to infer that (nor did I ever have occasion to run into a problem because of it (I am not the OP).) (I had a colleague who often felt that contracts included things that "go without saying" -- I tried to make it a practice to write those things into the contract. ;-) (Well, within reason, at least -- there are things like laws that govern contracts, and maybe well known conventions. ;-)
