On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:35:54AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 31 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: [snip] > > Sam? Shouldn't that be Sat? It was in Hamish's original Date > > header! > > Perhaps he has his locale set to something french? Try this: > > $ LANG=fr_CH date -d 2000/01/01 > sam jan 1 00:00:00 CET 2000 > > "samedi"... Oder Deutsch... Samstag. $ LANG=de_CH date -d 2000/01/01 Sam jan 1 00:00:00 CET 2000 B.