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Apparently, though unproven, at 03:49 on Friday 07 January 2011, Stroller did |
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opine thusly: |
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> Hi there, |
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> Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is |
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> expected? |
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> $ locale |
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> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 |
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> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 |
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> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" |
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> LC_ALL= |
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> $ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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> 1:39 |
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> $ LC_TIME="POSIX" |
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> $ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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> 1:39am |
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> $ |
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> |
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> I had a single line of only LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in /etc/env.d/02locale; |
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> adding LC_TIME="POSIX" allows various scripts and stuff (I've written) to |
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> show the date properly, but I think I read somewhere that this is bad. |
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Your output looks fine, except for the last two commands. LC_TIME is an |
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envvar, you have set it without exporting it, then ran data again and got a |
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change. I don't understand how you managed that as LC_TIME would no longer be |
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POSIX at that stage: |
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$ cat /etc/env.d/02locale |
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LANG="en_GB.utf8" |
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$ locale |
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LANG=en_GB.utf8 |
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LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8" |
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LC_ALL= |
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$ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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8:16 |
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$ LC_TIME="POSIX" |
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$ date +"%l:%M%P" |
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8:17 |
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$ LC_TIME="POSIX" date +"%l:%M%P" |
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8:18am |
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As for the "correct" way and what is "bad", I've also read stuff. I've read |
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lots and lots and lots of opinions, but not much fact. So here's my own mere |
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opinion: |
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It doesn't really matter where you set it as long as it gets the job done. |
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Put it in conf.d to have it global. |
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Put it in /etc/profile* to have it global for a shell |
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Put it in ~/.profile* to set it for a single user. |
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Or maybe you meant that you've read some people opine that setting just |
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LC_TIME is bad? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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