Re: Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Hank Knox <hank.knox@gmail.com> wrote:
> The example looks like:
> 
> $ date
> Sun Jun  3 10:27:39 JST 2007
> $ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 date
> dimanche 3 juin 2007, 10:27:33 (UTC+0900)
> 
> but when I run it on my own system, I see the following (note that on my
> system, LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 and all LC_* environment variables are the same):
> 
> $ date
> Tue Mar  3 21:56:39 EST 2020
> $ LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 date
> Tue Mar  3 21:56:58 EST 2020
> 
> Note that output in both cases in identical. The man page for date clearly says
> that date relies on LC_TIME and this works as expected:

Works fine here on a default configured Debian system.
So I suspect there is some configuration difference on your system, which
causes this.

Thus the doc is correct; closing this bug.

Holger


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