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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:53:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users)
Subject:   Re: Call for national time locales
Message-ID:  <199612010853.JAA11432@freebie.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961130111000.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Nov 30, 96 11:10:00 am"

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Ollivier Robert writes:
> According to ?????????????:
>> Format is pretty simple, you can look at
>> /usr/src/share/timedef/data/* for actual examples and strftime.c
>> source.
>
> Here is a french one. I don't know how to deal with am/pm which don't e=
xist
> here. I've put 2 spaces instead...

Simple.  Put spaces for AM, since they're a subset of the 24 hour
clock.  As for the afternoon, that's apr=E8s-midi in French, right, so
how about using 'am'?  :-)

I also learnt at school that in French the names of days and months
weren't written with a capital initial.  Is that incorrect?

Greg



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