Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:45:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199612011545.QAA14137@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612010843.JAA07699@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 1, 96 09:43:35 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > > j@snaily 109% uname -sr > > UNIX_SV 4.2 > > j@snaily 110% date > > Sam Nov 30 06:44:23 MEZ 1996 > If I understand the problem, it's not so much programming support in > the software that's the problem: it's the POSIX spec which specifies 3 > characters, so you could always trip over new software which has a Posix says that applications should not rely on anything regarding the date format iff the current locale is not the Posix locale. That's pretty much freedom, i guess. :) > problem with it. If that's correct, I rather like the sneaky HP-UX > solution to the problem. On the other hand, if AIX can do it, why > can't others? In particular since i believe AIX is Posix-branded. Andrey, do you know of any applications that will break if we go to two-letter abbreviations? > Which is the SVR4 system? Is that SINIX? No, it wasn't SNINIX. It's an older Onsite UNIX. -- 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. ;-)
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