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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Nick & John <levelwol <at> gmail.com>, 19856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:48:17 -0800

If I understand correctly, it doesn't appear that this is a bug that coreutils 
can fix, as POSIX implies (and many programs expect) that formats like %d and %B 
and %Y act independently of context.

If it's any consolation, the default output of 'date' in the C locale:

Thu Jun 28 15:10:00 PDT 2014

is bogus for me too, as Americans by and large neither write 'Jun' as an 
abbreviation for 'June' nor use 24-hour timestamps.
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