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Re: bug#19933: LC_TIME category in Coreutils
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: bug#19933: LC_TIME category in Coreutils |
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Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:01:47 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> skribis:
> On 02/23/2015 01:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I suspect this isn’t needed.
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> 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’.