On 7/1/2011, at 6:26am, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> ... >> Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is >> expected? >> >> $ locale >> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" >> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" >> ... >> $ date +"%l:%M%P" >> 1:39 >> $ LC_TIME="POSIX" >> $ date +"%l:%M%P" >> 1:39am >> $ > > Your output looks fine, except for the last two commands. LC_TIME is an > envvar, you have set it without exporting it, then ran data again and got a > change. I don't understand how you managed that as LC_TIME would no longer be > POSIX at that stage: > > $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale > LANG="en_GB.utf8" > $ locale > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8" > ... > $ date +"%l:%M%P" > 8:16 > $ LC_TIME="POSIX" > $ date +"%l:%M%P" > 8:17 > $ LC_TIME="POSIX" date +"%l:%M%P" > 8:18am
I've just tested on another machine. It seems like if I set it to match the first machine with both environments in the /etc/env.d/02locale: $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="POSIX" $ sudo env-update && source /etc/profile $ source ~/.bashrc Then I can reproduce switching LC_TIME without exporting or anything else: $ date +"%l:%M%P" 4:01pm $ LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8" $ date +"%l:%M%P" 4:02 $ LC_TIME="POSIX" $ date +"%l:%M%P" 4:02pm $ Removing either (& rebooting, because I don't really understand this stuff) removes the ability. I don't know whether this is supposed to be correct or not; with both environments in /etc/env.d/02locale: $ LC_TIME="POSIX" $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8" $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ The variable is lacking quotes in the `locale` output above; I have no idea whether or not this makes any difference. Stroller.
