Re: 822-date obsolete?

[Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net>]

On Jan 10, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 09, "Karl B. Hammar" <karl@kalle.csb.ki.se> wrote:
>  >You can't simply substitute 822-date with date -R, since date cares about
>  >your LANG variable.
> This is a bug in /bin/date: RFC 822 compliant dates must not use
> translated names. 

How about the following replacement for /usr/bin/822-date:

#!/bin/sh
LANG=C /bin/date --rfc

Either that or fixing the bug in /bin/date would work...


Chris
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