Re: glibc: standard date/time format patch

[Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>]

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:55:27 +0000
> From: Eduardo =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= Ureta <eperez@it.uc3m.es>
> Cc: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
> 
> On 2002-08-16 10:35:21 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Eduardo Pérez Ureta wrote:
> > >There's a confusion what the standard date/time format is, in glibc.
> > 
> > No, there isn't.  The code is correct.  Go, read the C or Unix standard.
> 
> Sure, POSIX says so. But POSIX should follow International Standards
> instead American Standards.

POSIX _is_ an International Standard.  For example, the format that
you mention is standardized by ISO/IEC 9945-3: 1993.

> I don't want my system following Standards that only apply to America.

Then you should be happy with the way things are, since the C locale
disagrees with common American usage.  If you asked typical Americans
for the date and time, not one in a thousand would respond with the
"Fri Aug 16 22:57:59 PDT 2002" format required by the POSIX C locale.
Many Americans wouldn't even _understand_ that format, as most
Americans say "10 P.M." rather than "22:00".