Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 22:15, schrieb Sven Joachim:
> 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
Will have a look at this tomorrow when I'm at the lenny box. Can't get it by
now what they consider to "be the best of both worlds", and why en_US
suddenly is the only setting that gets me ISO 8601 resp. 'posix-long-iso'.
hk47
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