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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:45:25 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for national time locales
Message-ID:  <199611291945.WAA00363@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3172.849295891@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 29, 96 08:31:31 pm"

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> In message <199611291837.VAA00784@nagual.ru>, =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE
> =C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= writes:
> >Currently we have only German and Russian ones, other 8859-1 covered
> >locales welcome (french, italian, etc.)
> 
> Danish too.
> 
> I disagree with the german one, try this:
> 
> 	% env LC_TIME=de_DE date
> 	 Fr 29 Nov 1996 20:29:37 MET
> 	^
> 	|
> 
> that initial space is bogus.

POSIX wants 3-letter abbreviation here, but in real life
Germans and Russians use 2-letters abbreviations.

Final space is more bogus than initial one in cases like
Fr , 29 Nov 1006 20:29:37 (ARPA-like),
better looking variant (for me)
 Fr, 29 Nov 1006 20:29:37

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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