Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 01:24:01 +0200 From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <dc9483611fd37e051fb68532daf10066@mailbox.ijs.si>
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Is it normal/expected/documented that the date(1) command in 11.0 now produces a timestamp in substantially different format in an "en_US.UTF-8" locale (long names, commas, 12 vs. 24h hour time): Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 12:50:43 AM CEST vs: Thu Aug 4 00:52:29 CEST 2016 Setting LC_TIME does not help: $ LC_TIME="C" date Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 01:13:37 AM CEST although LC_ALL="C" _does_ help. This is funny too, especially regarding commas: $ LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" date Thursday 4 August 2016 at 01:16:45 CEST $ LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" date Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 01:16:54 AM CEST The date(1) man page states: The date utility is expected to be compatible with IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”). What does POSIX.2 say about date(1) following a locale? ====== 11.0-BETA3: $ date Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 12:50:43 AM CEST $ uname -a FreeBSD xxx.ijs.si 11.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3 #0 r303469: Fri Jul 29 02:27:28 UTC 2016 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ====== 10.3-RELEASE-p6 : $ date Thu Aug 4 00:52:29 CEST 2016 $ freebsd-version 10.3-RELEASE-p6 $ uname -a FreeBSD yyy.ijs.si 10.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat May 28 12:23:44 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Mark
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