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

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> "Bo Borgerson" <address@hidden> 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.
>
> The diffutils message translations are to display appropriate symbols
> for copyright ("©" rather than "(C)") and for authors' names (Torbjörn
> Granlund).  Also, it rewrites "illegal" to "unrecognized" in a context
> where POSIX requires the word "illegal" even though the GNU project
> prefers to reserve "illegal" for things that are actually illegal.
> Perhaps coreutils could do something similar there, too, after the
> next stable release goes out.

If you mean the getopt diagnostic, it is no longer required.
FYI, upstream glibc changed its diagnostic recently.