From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:42:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] am: invoke perl's strftime in C locale
Message-ID: <CALWbr2w+q5=Z8__g+J_s2NtTMgziHrntFqsi8vCJyvfO2qi81A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130115155953.GB21815@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> This puts all of perl into the C locale, which would mean error messages
> from perl would be in English rather than the user's language. It
> probably isn't a big deal, because that snippet of perl is short and not
> likely to produce problems, but I wonder how hard it would be to set the
> locale just for the strftime call.

Maybe just setting LC_TIME to C would do ...

>From locale(7) man page:

       LC_TIME
              changes  the behavior of the strftime(3) function to
display the current time in a locally acceptable form; for
              example, most of Europe uses a 24-hour clock versus the
12-hour clock used in the United States.