Subject: Re: strftime %X control: how?
To: NetBSD User-Level Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/05/2007 20:04:12
>> I want standard ISO date format, but I otherwise want what I have
>> now.  My question is, how can I get this?
>      The current implementation supports only the "C" and "POSIX"
>      locales for all but the LC_CTYPE locale.

Sigh.

Are there standards for what goes in $LC_TIME (or, what it points to,
if it's just a name pointing to data somewhere else)?  If so, where can
I find them?  If not, any thoughts on how to construct such a thing?  I
can of course just hack something together to make atq print sane dates
for me, but if there are specs, I'd like to at least consider following
them, and if I can improve NetBSD at the same time, all the better.

> Personally I don't think it should be possible to personalize the
> date formats used in standard reports produced by command-line tools.

I disagree.  It would be reasonable to provide a way to get some
standard format, but for something like atq which is primarily intended
for human consumption, letting humans configure it is Good.

> E.g. strftime("%F-%T%z");

Thank you!  Thank you!  Someone who knows the difference between "e.g."
and "i.e."!

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