Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info? Yes. I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils. This is for LC_MESSAGES but a similar thing could be done for LC_TIME.

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-3 Severity: normal The --time-style=locale option to ls no longer behaves as documented. $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... $ ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 ... $ /bin/ls --time-style=locale -l passwd -rw-r--r--

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Odd. I see that with LC_ALL=en, it *does* work: LC_ALL=en ./ls --time-style=locale -dl / drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1024 Mar 13 12:02 / Because the en locale does not exist. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default English time-style is used is when

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? BTW, such a patch would almost certainly

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? What's the downside to that? Mike Stone Good question. My thought was because there aren't any now, but I guess

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM -0400, Bo Borgerson wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's