Re: Date formatting with en_US locale

From: Otacílio <otacilio.neto_at_bsd.com.br>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 11:55:08 -0300
Em 26/05/2016 11:49, Baptiste Daroussin escreveu:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
>> Baptiste and -current,
>>
>> I noticed two annoyances with date formatting on head, and I wonder how
>> we can fix them.
>>
>> I have these settings:
>>
>>      LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1
>>      LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
>>
>> First, Thunderbird displays the date as, for example:
>>
>>      03/ 6/16 ...
>>
>> The leading space on the day (6) looks weird.  I might even say it's
>> simply wrong.  Zero-padding would better.  (/No/ padding would be best,
>> but I don't think strftime supports that.)
>>
>> Second, date(1) no longer shows the day-of-week:
>>
>>      $ date
>>      March 26, 2016 at 09:21:55 AM CDT
>>
>> For many years, I have been typing "date" to see the day-of-week (and
>> other things).  I like the new human-friendly format, but I miss the
>> day-of-week.
>>
>> Of course, I can fix these locally, but I wonder how we can fix them for
>> everyone.  I see that the formats come from CLDR.  I also see that ume_at_
>> restored the day-of-week for ja_JP in r292512.  Is this the best
>> approach, or should we try to get them changed upstream (CLDR)?
>>
>> Thanks for your input,
> I can hack cldr2def.pl to readd the week of day as it was before for 11.0 still
> the best approach is to push the change upstream.
>
> I will have a look at the cldr2def.pl hack this week end.
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt

LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8

MM_CHARSET=UTF-8

also no longer shows the day-of-week

[ota_at_nostromo /usr/home/ota]$ date
26 de maio de 2016 11:54:44 BRT
Received on Thu May 26 2016 - 12:55:25 UTC

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