Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Locale question

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 16:22:27 -0400, Jason McCarty wrote:
> Szilard Hajba wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > When I looked into my log I found the following:
> > 
> > address@hidden/isdk--mainline--2.3--patch-20
> >     k jún 28 11:06:15 CEST 2005
> >     Szilard Hajba <address@hidden>
> >     Code cleanup
> > [...]
> > 
> > It seems to me that tla puts the date in the format of the locale of the
> > client machine. It looks weird, wouldn't it be better to store a locale
> > independent date in the files and format it for displaying?
> 
> I'm not sure which command this output is from, but if you
> `tla cat-archive-log` one of these revisions, you'll see that a
> locale-specific Date field and a uniform Standard-date field are stored
> in the logs. So you would want the command to extract Standard-date
> instead.

The "you" however is the tla binary. And it is broken for the log
message to depend on locale of the creator.

The Date should be according to rfc2822, but it obviously isn't.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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