Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:07:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <3331.849298054@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:45:25 %2B0300." <199611291945.WAA00363@nagual.ru>
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>> 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),
^^^^
I know that the ARPA net was old, but... :-)
I still think it is bogus. If they say "3-letter", then
"Fr " isn't allowable, neither is " Fr".
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