Re: Infinite loop in mdate-sh

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-06-08 20:41:21 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> unset is not portable.  
> Can we override TIME_STYLE with some safe value? Which one? 
> What happens when this is set to the empty string?

An empty string is incorrect:

ay:~> TIME_STYLE= ls -l
ls: ambiguous argument `' for `time style'
Valid arguments are:
  - `full-iso'
  - `long-iso'
  - `iso'
  - `locale'
Try `ls --help' for more information.

So, you should set it to "locale" (this is OK since the script
sets the locales to C).

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