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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:10:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Subject:   Re: Call for national time locales
Message-ID:  <199611301510.QAA01886@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961130111000.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Nov 30, 96 11:10:00 am"

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> Here is a french one. I don't know how to deal with am/pm which don't exist
> here. I've put 2 spaces instead...

That's probably wrong.  You cannot prevent a stupid programmer from
using a conversion string of "%l:%m %p".  This will now result in
" 4:05   " for your definition file, when it's actually 16:05.

Andrey, what do the standards say about this?  Would it be an option
to disallow the 12-hour clock completely for those locales that do not
use it at all?  I.e., "%l:%m" would then be identical to "%h:%m".

Btw., AM/PM times, and this stupid ``3 feet and 5 7/16 inches''
attitude were about the biggest problems for me when being in the
US. :-)  [Followups to this sentence to -chat, please, not here!]

-- 
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. ;-)



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