bug#35336: date should respect TIME_STYLE too

2019-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’, except date(1) itself! Date should be no different... I don't think I agree. In hindsight, that environment variable was a mistake and we shouldn't let the mistake propagate elsewhere. Standard utili

bug#35343: sort: printing characters: define

2019-04-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
(info "(coreutils) sort invocation") says ‘-i’ ‘--ignore-nonprinting’ Ignore nonprinting characters. The ‘LC_CTYPE’ locale determines character types... Well this leaves the user high and dry trying to figure out what you mean by printing characters. Is SPC a printing character he won

bug#35336: date should respect TIME_STYLE too

2019-04-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’, except date(1) itself! Date should be no different...

bug#35335: touch --verbose

2019-04-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Say, rm, cp, mv have --verbose. How about for touch too? Then one wouldn't need $ set -x; touch /tmp/{a,b,c}.el; set +x + touch /tmp/a.el /tmp/b.el /tmp/c.el to see what it was touching or not.