From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 11:59:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03568 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03563 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:59:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA22166 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:49:56 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 29 Nov 96 23:49:56 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.3/8.8.3) id WAA00363; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:45:25 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <199611291945.WAA00363@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: Call for national time locales In-Reply-To: <3172.849295891@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 29, 96 08:31:31 pm" To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:45:25 +0300 (MSK) Cc: current@freebsd.org From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (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 > 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 http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/