Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:12:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199612010812.JAA09839@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961201011733.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Dec 1, 96 01:17:33 am"
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to J Wunsch: > > 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. > > I agree but how can I do it properly ? Stick AM/PM there, even if they are not in common use. Eventually, we should decide to drop the 12-hour braindeadness for those locales that don't use it at all, and simply have the %I being the same as %H then. Posix doesn't say much for non-Posix (translate this: non-US) locales. Almost everything seems to be allowed, so i don't see why one could not drop the 12-hour sillyness. -- 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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