From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 07:53:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA18776 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 07:53:05 -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 HAA18764 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 07:53:01 -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 QAA17663 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:52:47 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA20175 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:52:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id QAA14137 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:45:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612011545.QAA14137@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Call for national time locales To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:45:00 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612010843.JAA07699@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 1, 96 09:43:35 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 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. ;-)