Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:43:35 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Call for national time locales Message-ID: <199612010843.JAA07699@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611300748.IAA01098@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 30, 96 08:48:37 am"
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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. Greg
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