Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

[Bo Borgerson]

Hi,

This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit
`--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in
absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable).

The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the
default English time-style is used is when there is no `hard locale'
in effect for time (LC_TIME=C or POSIX).

In case it might be desirable to have the time-style default to N_("%b
%e  %Y") and  N_("%b %e %H:%M") (the `defaults') rather than
'posix-long-iso' ("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" in all cases) for locales that
begin with 'en_', I've included a small patch that provides this
behavior.

----
$ LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 src/ls -l TODO
-rw-r--r-- 1 bo bo 6908 2008-03-31 21:09 TODO

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 src/ls -l TODO
-rw-r--r-- 1 bo bo 6908 Mar 31 21:09 TODO

$ LC_ALL=C src/ls -l TODO
-rw-r--r-- 1 bo bo 6908 Mar 31 21:09 TODO
----

Thanks,

Bo

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