On Tuesday 01 June 2010 15:23:11 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > From SUSv3: > > "The <date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and > > timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the > > field shall be the equivalent of the output of the following date > > command: > > > > date "+%b %e %H:%M" > > > > if the file has been modified in the last six months, or: > > > > date "+%b %e %Y" > > > Of course, SUS basically ignores any locale other than "POSIX" or "C", > > but there is rarely a good reason to be different in other locales. > > One reason would be that '%b %e %Y' makes sense only to Americans >:-) In this specific case, I'd say that is a good reason to be different. I wouldn't say ISO format is the correct way to be different -- probably something that uses '%b', '%e', and '%Y' and has 3 spaces, but not is the same order is appropriate. That's just my gut feeling though. It's a local(e) thing, so I can only really speak for en_US@Arkansas. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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