Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:44:59 +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: <e851f0064ec13ff99d64e63b74f10d58@mailbox.ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <279e9b67-da23-cdd6-3a77-b084ad8269eb@freebsd.org> 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>
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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 may not say what an abbreviated name really looks like in a particular locale, but it does distinguish between full and abbreviated names. Mark
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