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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#35336: date should respect TIME_STYLE too |
| Date: | Sat, 20 Apr 2019 07:55:32 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’, except date(1) itself! Date should be no different...
I don't think I agree. In hindsight, that environment variable was a mistake and we shouldn't let the mistake propagate elsewhere. Standard utilities should minimize their use of nonstandard environment variables.
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