Bug#693446: libc-bin: C.UTF-8 locale shows bogus dates
Aurelien Jarno dixit:
>Indeed, LC_TIME has been written using en_US.UTF-8 as an example.
Ah, okay.
>> Can we please have the C.UTF-8 locale be a copy of the C locale
>> with *only* the encoding set to UTF-8, nothing else changed?
>
>History has shown that writing such a locale is not as easy as you
>think.
Right, especially as it’s kinda hard to take ‘C’ as base
when it’s the absence of localisation in most cases…
>That will be fixed in the next upload.
Merci!
bye,
//mirabilos
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“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
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