Re: A non TZ related question ...

[Paul Eggert]

Robert Elz wrote:
> another NetBSD
> developer who has access to a linux system ...  ran a test, which first
> confirmed that the locale he set (a Greek one) does use ',' as the
> radix character, and that "sleep" does not parse it that way when
> used as an arg.

That's clearly a bug: the behavior does not match the coreutils manual. On the 
other hand it's inconvenient if the command 'sleep 0.1' works only in some 
locales; how is one supposed to write a shell script portable in non-C locales? 
I attempted to address the problem by modifying GNU 'sleep' and similar 
coreutils programs to accept both syntaxes, by installing the attached patch 
into coreutils master. Perhaps NetBSD could do likewise.

0001-printf-seq-sleep-tail-timeout-accept-current-locale-.patch
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