Re: #155150: diff -u displays unnecessary zeros after the seconds (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 23:43:16 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I received this from the Debian bug system today.
> >
> > Note:  export LC_TIME=C; diff -u n1 n2  does not give the old behaviour
> > as the manual seems to suggest.
>
> ay:~> LC_TIME=C diff -u n1 n2
> --- n1  2002-08-01 03:35:01.000000000 +0200
> +++ n2  2002-08-01 03:35:09.000000000 +0200
> [...]
>
> The NEWS file doesn't say anything for LC_TIME (only when the -c style
> is used, not with the -u style).

Oops, you are right, I misread the manual.

Question for the author: Would violate some standard to make this
happen also for -u?