On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 02:15:36PM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 18:56:33 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > On 05.08.2016 18:44, Mark Martinec wrote: > > >> On 2016-08-05 17:23, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > >> > > >> POSIX does say that the default format should be the same > > >> as with "+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y". > > >> It also says that %a and %b are locale's abbreviated names. > > > > > > It is true for _POSIX_ locale only, as I already say. en_US.* is not > > > POSIX or C locale. > > > > It still violates POLA. > > > I really do not think that it violates POLA fiven that the behaviour you are > expecting is still available in the default configurtion that is still POSIX.
Regardless, at a new major release is precisely when it is permissible to break POLA. > Set LC_TIME to C and then you are back on your behaviour (and this is the > default when you install FreeBSD). > > locales should be seen as tzdata for exemple, they are a moving target > complicated to handle for every locale we do support: 78 for 11.0-RELEASE and > 193 if we do count the encoding variants. locales are updated very often (for > exemple cldr unicode make a new release of the data every 8 month or so) As I understand it, your change will improve the maintainability of locales in FreeBSD in the future, which justifies a POLA break at the release boundary. -Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
