Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:22:17 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199612021222.AA141609337@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199612010843.JAA07699@freebie.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 1, 96 09:43:35 am
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E-mail message from Greg Lehey contained: > J Wunsch writes: > > As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > > > >> Well, German is your locale and you can do what you want with it, > >> I can only warn you that if you will use unpadded two letters, > >> you'll break too many programs. > > > > Hmm. Just wondering... a quick poll on as many machines as i could > > get my hands on yielded: > > > > j@snaily 109% uname -sr > > UNIX_SV 4.2 > > j@snaily 110% date > > Sam Nov 30 06:44:23 MEZ 1996 > > > > j@blue 649% uname -sr > > AIX 2 > > j@blue 650% date > > Sa 30 Nov 08:26:41 1996 > > > > j@sol 1% uname -sr > > SunOS 5.3 > > j@sol 2% date > > Samstag, 30. November 1996, 08:44:24 Uhr MET > > > > j@vzentr 9% uname -sr > > HP-UX B.10.00 > > j@vzentr 10% date > > Sa., 30. Nov. 1996, 08:41:40 > > > > Not a single system uses the same as another one. :-O > > > > What do the other German folks think? I'm leaning towards either the > > SVR4 or the HP/UX approach. > > If I understand the problem, it's not so much programming support in > the software that's the problem: it's the POSIX spec which specifies 3 > characters, so you could always trip over new software which has a > problem with it. If that's correct, I rather like the sneaky HP-UX > solution to the problem. On the other hand, if AIX can do it, why > can't others? > > Which is the SVR4 system? Is that SINIX? I don't know if that > sanctions the three-letter abbreviations or not. My feeling is that > it doesn't. uname -a SINIX-Y rm6263 5.43 A1002 RM600 4/512 R4000 date Mo 2.Dez.1996, 13:23:19 MET /Marino > > Greg > >
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