GNU bug report logs - #19933
LC_TIME category in Coreutils

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 19933 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, mhw <at> netris.org, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>,
 19933 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19933: LC_TIME category in Coreutils
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:01:47 +0100

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

> On 02/23/2015 01:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I suspect this isn’t needed.
>
> This is needed so that 'ls -l' can output a date format suitable for
> the current locale.  These formats aren't part of glibc and so are not
> in glibc's LC_TIME information.  The default formats for the C locale
> are "%b %e  %Y" for older files and "%b %e %H:%M" for newer files, but
> the formats differ in other locales (e.g., Dutch uses "%e %b" instead
> of "%b %e").

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Ludo’.
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