On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:00:51AM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > Since there seems to be no way to feed a "%s" value to date, I > > decided to use strftime(), and thus get rid of the date -R > > invocation. It seems to me that globally setting the locale to "C" > > doesn't cause trouble ("dch Ìnîtíãl release." is fine) but I may be > > wrong. However, there could be a better solution with the > > Email::Date::Format package ; it takes care of formatting time > > according to RFC 2822 and doesn't touch the locale. It does exactly > > what we want in a clean way, so it's probably worth depending on it. > > That does look useful, but if there aren't any side effects to setting > LC_TIME, I'd prefer that over adding a dependency. It's still simple > enough code.
I personally prefer the locale-aware dates in the changelog: when I look at my own changelogs, I sometimes want to know when I wrote them; having to manually convert into my own locale is a pain. I doubt that many users would have a particular need or desire to convert changelog timestamps into their own locale. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org