Re: Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?

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Subject: Re: Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?
From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:41:01 +0100
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]] Simon McVittie 

> I think this is exactly the "international/culture-neutral English"
> locale that you're looking for.

I wish we'd get away from this; nothing is ever culture-neutral, and «C»
does not give you any guarantees about what language (if any!) the
output is in.

If people want English output, they should set their locale parameters
appropriately.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

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