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Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch



On 2009-01-19 21:59 +0100, bugtracker@slideomania.com wrote:

> My state of confusion started this morning, when I was confronted with a 
> POSIX/C style date format using the German locales on lenny. As you can see 
> from the table, in lenny suddenly some locales seem to have changed from ISO 
> 8601 style to POSIX/C style. Is this intentional behaviour, or something that 
> should be reported as a bug? Again, I consider POSIX/C style to be horrible.

This is intentional, see the coreutils NEWS file:

,----[ /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.gz ]
|   ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', not --time-style='posix-long-iso'.
|   However, the 'locale' time style now behaves like 'posix-long-iso'
|   if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change
|   attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
`----

The locales did not change, just the behavior of ls.

Sven


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