From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 00:22:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06215 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:22:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06196 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA09502 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:22:44 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13300 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:22:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA09839 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:12:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612010812.JAA09839@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Call for national time locales To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:12:08 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Ollivier Robert at "Dec 1, 96 01:17:33 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to J Wunsch: > > That's probably wrong. You cannot prevent a stupid programmer from > > using a conversion string of "%l:%m %p". This will now result in > > " 4:05 " for your definition file, when it's actually 16:05. > > I agree but how can I do it properly ? Stick AM/PM there, even if they are not in common use. Eventually, we should decide to drop the 12-hour braindeadness for those locales that don't use it at all, and simply have the %I being the same as %H then. Posix doesn't say much for non-Posix (translate this: non-US) locales. Almost everything seems to be allowed, so i don't see why one could not drop the 12-hour sillyness. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)