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Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-63
On Nov 8 19:12, Eric Backus wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> > On Nov 7 20:38, Eric Backus wrote:
> > > Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert <at> alum.mit.edu> writes:
> > >
> > > > How do I make this work, while maintaining:
> > > >
> > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > > >
> > > > - Jim
> > >
> > > You might try "LANG=en_us.UTF-8" (Note the lower-case "us"). It seems to
> >
> > That's not correct. The result is that the locale will still be "C".
> > The above LANG setting will be refused since the territory part of the
> > locale specifier must be uppercase. See
> > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-ov
> >
> > Corinna
>
> OK, my bad. Sorry.
>
>
> I must say I find the ls behavior quite confusing. It appears that *any*
> valid setting of LANG other than "C" results in the iso time style, and --time-
> style=locale never has any effect regardless of the setting of LANG. Feature?
> or defect?
Dunno, but I admit that I like the ISO date much better anyway. It's
more clear and independent of locale specific differences to express a
date.
Corinna
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