GNU bug report logs - #19856
Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Nick & John" <levelwol <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 19856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman <at> csail.mit.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 19856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nick & John <levelwol <at> gmail.com>,
 Austin Group <austin-group-l <at> opengroup.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in
 Greek locale
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:20:58 -0500

<<On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:56:34 -0700, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> said:

> Coreutils will automatically pick up any fixes in glibc, you'll need to
> get it fixed there first.  It would be nice to get POSIX to standardize
> %OB, but that would be easier if you could first get glibc to implement
> the solution to show that it makes sense.

FreeBSD has long implemented %OB, for Russian IIRC.  It's documented
thus:

           Additionally %OB implemented to represent alternative months names
           (used standalone, without day mentioned).

-GAWollman
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