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coreutils package

Date doesn't respect LC_TIME

Bug #34717 reported by Tero Karvinen
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Bug Description

Coreutils 'date' command does not display date in the format mandated by LC_TIME.

To reproduce:
1) set locale to en_DK.utf8. Time locale can be chosen with 'export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8' or by choosing "English (Danish)" in gdm login screen.
2) $ locale|grep TIME
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
3) $ date
Mon Mar 13 10:23:30 EET 2006

It should show the time in international ISO-8601 format, something like 'date --iso=min': "2006-03-13T10:26+0200"

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-ISO-locale

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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)
description: updated
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

It's not clear to me that it is intended to display the date in a localized format, and changing a traditional UNIX tool like this tends to break scripts

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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad) wrote :

I'm starting to believe that you are right. Just noticed there is already a mechanism to show date in current locale. It's just not on by default:
$ LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" date +"%x %X"
04/13/2006 04:12:08 PM
$ LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8" date +"%x %X"
2006-04-13 16:12:13

I think this bug could be closed.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 34717] Re: Date doesn't respect LC_TIME

Closing according to reporters comments

 status Rejected

Changed in coreutils:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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