Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:21:43 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: trhodes@FreeBSD.org, standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Listing FreeBSD extentions as such in utilities Message-ID: <20051031142143.6e26f790.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051031190728.GA1832@flame.pc> References: <20051031121442.5f7fdff8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20051031183931.GA1584@flame.pc> <20051031134509.73764fc5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20051031190728.GA1832@flame.pc>
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:07:28 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2005-10-31 13:45, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:39:32 +0200 > > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > > > > On 2005-10-31 12:14, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > %cvs diff -u date.1 > > > > Index: date.1 > > > > =================================================================== > > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/date.1,v > > > > retrieving revision 1.72 > > > > diff -u -r1.72 date.1 > > > > --- date.1 13 Feb 2005 22:25:09 -0000 1.72 > > > > +++ date.1 31 Oct 2005 17:11:53 -0000 > > > > [...] > > > > +.Xr sh 1 > > > > +shell understands environment variables such as > > > > +.Dl LC_TIME=C . > > > > .Sh HISTORY > > > > A > > > > .Nm > > > > > > I was under the impression that locale settings are understood by the > > > utilities themselves too, e.g. in commands like: > > > > > > env LC_FOO=xxx date > > > > That works too. I was just attempting to illustrate a point, > > without bloating the manual page. Guess I could add > > "date" at the end there. :) > > You don't need to add anything about the LC_XXX variables, in my > opinion. This is not something that is date(1)-specific and certainly > not against the standards. I'm not 100% fluent in POSIX, so ... . Anyway, I also have no clue where the various environment variables are documented. Not in locale(1), that's for sure. And they seem to be in every manual page that [ab]uses them on the OpenGroup site. It's cool, I just figured a quickie mention would be good, but perhaps they should be in locale(1). Removed in my local patch. -- Tom Rhodes
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