On 05.02.24 09:55, Bo Berglund wrote:
I really wonder why it uses this terrible illogical display with the day name first?
Because the need for global, *cross-OS* standards for a timestamp format first arose with BBSes, USENET, E-Mails and the like, and the developers of those wanted to have the "Date:" headers primarily *human*-readable (as long as the human can read English):
$ date --rfc-email Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:23:57 +0100 $ LANG=C date Mon Feb 5 11:24:03 CET 2024 $ LANG=C date +%c Mon Feb 5 11:24:06 2024
So the human-readable variants are *older* and more widely implemented than machine-readable or purpose-optimized ones.
Be grateful that the code for *logging* is unlikely to support *localization* (to one of what, 400+?, regional human conventions) ... ;-3
$ echo $LANG de_DE.UTF-8 $ date Mo 5. Feb 11:24:22 CET 2024 $ date +%c Mo 05 Feb 2024 11:24:25 CET
$ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 date lun. 05 févr. 2024 11:24:43 CET $ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 date +%c lun. 05 févr. 2024 11:24:50
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 date +%c --date="4 hours" Mon 05 Feb 2024 03:41:11 PM CET $ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 date +%c --date="4 hours" Mon 05 Feb 2024 15:41:16 CET
$ locale -a | wc -l 873
Kind regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur Binect GmbH
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