Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 23:44:10 +0200 From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <000c29ee0f3dbd1d433c565023d69e25@mailbox.ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <3629a441-ee6d-2407-fa13-5ebd8db8d802@freebsd.org> References: <dc9483611fd37e051fb68532daf10066@mailbox.ijs.si> <3629a441-ee6d-2407-fa13-5ebd8db8d802@freebsd.org>
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Should I open a bug report, or has the problem been noted? Mark On 2016-08-04 04:32, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/08/2016 7:24 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: >> 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 >> > one of those is a bug. the formats are defined in posix I believe. > >> >> 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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