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Subject: Re: Call for national time locales
To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:22:17 +0100 (MEZ)
Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199612010843.JAA07699@freebie.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 1, 96 09:43:35 am
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E-mail message from Greg Lehey contained:
> J Wunsch writes:
> > As [?KOI8-R?] wrote:
> >
> >> Well, German is your locale and you can do what you want with it,
> >> I can only warn you that if you will use unpadded two letters,
> >> you'll break too many programs.
> >
> > Hmm.  Just wondering... a quick poll on as many machines as i could
> > get my hands on yielded:
> >
> > j@snaily 109% uname -sr
> > UNIX_SV 4.2
> > j@snaily 110% date
> > Sam Nov 30 06:44:23 MEZ 1996
> >
> > j@blue 649% uname -sr
> > AIX 2
> > j@blue 650% date
> > Sa 30 Nov 08:26:41 1996
> >
> > j@sol 1% uname -sr
> > SunOS 5.3
> > j@sol 2% date
> > Samstag, 30. November 1996, 08:44:24 Uhr MET
> >
> > j@vzentr 9% uname -sr
> > HP-UX B.10.00
> > j@vzentr 10% date
> > Sa., 30. Nov. 1996, 08:41:40
> >
> > Not a single system uses the same as another one. :-O
> >
> > What do the other German folks think?  I'm leaning towards either the
> > SVR4 or the HP/UX approach.
> 
> 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
> 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?
> 
> Which is the SVR4 system?  Is that SINIX?  I don't know if that
> sanctions the three-letter abbreviations or not.  My feeling is that
> it doesn't.

uname -a
SINIX-Y rm6263 5.43 A1002 RM600 4/512 R4000
date
Mo  2.Dez.1996, 13:23:19 MET

/Marino
> 
> Greg
> 
>