Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:41:38 +0900
> From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden>

>    Standardization way is possible only when people all over the world
>    agree.

Yes, but we don't need complete unanimity.  We need only sufficient consensus.

>    'dired' must manage this problem regardless of whether GNU 'ls'
>    takes 'standardization' way (date expression is ISO regardless of
>    locale) or 'localization' way (date expression is localized).

This is true, but only up to a point.  For example, the GNU Emacs
maintainers could recommend GNU 'ls' to the relatively few users who
have unusual date formats that GNU Emacs can't parse.  This would
remove the need for GNU Emacs to support every date format on the
planet.

It's not unreasonable for GNU ls to cater to GNU Emacs in this way.