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Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-63


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?

-- 
Eric


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