------- Comment #8 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2006-03-15 17:41 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > Maybe we can just call it an enhancement or improvement then?
Maybe, if the glibc people agree (and the UK people agree, of course: the issue boils down to convincing the ISO/POSIX people in UK who are in chanrge of the minute locale data details, not at all an easy task, if you ask me ;) > (Thought I strongly feel that any date meant for humans to read must have 4 > year digits and any use of 2 year digits for a human to read should be a bug, > even if that human is using the C locale.) Maybe, again, but note that if we are talking about the "C" locale, the C Standard itself mandates %m/%d/%y. If you ask me, after so many years of code relying on that specific behavior, trying to change it now is an almost *impossible* task, really. By the way, can't you just prepare a small function consistently using 'Y', just a few lines, after all... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26697
