Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster
Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 13:57:37 CEST schrieb Michael Stone:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 08:36:49AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> >Am Dienstag, 10. September 2019, 22:52:03 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:06:37PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> >> > after an upgrade from stretch to buster, the date default output
> >> > changed
> >> > on my system
> >> >
> >> > As an example:
> >> >
> >> > Tue Sep 10 19:50:26 CEST 2019 (stretch)
> >> > Tue 10 Sep 2019 09:26:33 PM CEST (buster)
> >> >
> >> > I am just wondering if this is a known issue or if another
> >> > configuration
> >> > change during the upgrade caused this.
> >>
> >> https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg741032.html
> >
> >Many thanks for all the replies. Greg, the perfect explanation you already
> >gave here
> >
> >https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg741096.html
> >
> >(that explains why buster behaves differently).
> >
> >I think it would have been worth an entry for apt-listchanges, since it
> >might at least change the output of some local scripts (like it did here).
> apt-listchanges in what? If you run the stretch date on buster, you'll
> get the same output. The change is that the localized string changed to
> something more sensible and date uses the localized string. If a script
> is relying on the output of a program like date without specifying
> either the C locale or a date format, it's almost certainly doing
> something wrong--those strings are expected to change depending on
> things like locale settings, and are for humans to read, not programs.
Don't expect that all my scripts are perfect ... there are quick and dirty
ones;-) In a logfile a human readable output sounds not a too bad idea
though...but I understand attaching that change to date does not make sense.
Nevermind, all good for me, I hope that if others are affected by the change
they find the topic in the list archive.
Thanks again
Rainer
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