Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:56:33 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> To: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <4a454eef-55ae-b90d-4441-2aa9708fc747@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <e851f0064ec13ff99d64e63b74f10d58@mailbox.ijs.si> References: <dc9483611fd37e051fb68532daf10066@mailbox.ijs.si> <3629a441-ee6d-2407-fa13-5ebd8db8d802@freebsd.org> <000c29ee0f3dbd1d433c565023d69e25@mailbox.ijs.si> <a260a332-0c30-2338-bdd8-840524e8bfd8@freebsd.org> <f51cd89227047ff9249d9ecd68cf1646@mailbox.ijs.si> <279e9b67-da23-cdd6-3a77-b084ad8269eb@freebsd.org> <e851f0064ec13ff99d64e63b74f10d58@mailbox.ijs.si>
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On 05.08.2016 18:44, Mark Martinec wrote: > On 2016-08-05 17:23, Andrey Chernov wrote: >> On 05.08.2016 17:47, Mark Martinec wrote: >>> [Bug 211598] >>> date(1) default format in en_EN locale breaks compatibility with 10.3 >>> and violates POSIX >>> >>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211598 >> >> It breaks compatibility but not violates POSIX. POSIX care of only its >> own POSIX (or C) locale. > > POSIX does say that the default format should be the same > as with "+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y". > It also says that %a and %b are locale's abbreviated names. It is true for _POSIX_ locale only, as I already say. en_US.* is not POSIX or C locale. > It may not say what an abbreviated name really looks like > in a particular locale, but it does distinguish between > full and abbreviated names. It says nothing about other locales. Current format comes from CLDR, ask bapt@
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