Re: Extent of localisation customisation

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Iau, 2004-06-10 at 09:02, Danilo Segan wrote:
> I never said that -- I'm not even sure g_strftime exists.  I was
> referring to using things like "%c" or "%x" (which depend on current
> locale).  So, if we go the route of making changes in Gnome-only
> date-n-time libraries, we'd get inconsistent output in many programs
> (because some would use system functions).

If they do then the libraries would already be buggy. LC_* allows the
independant setting of the locale properties already. And whats more -
it seems to work quite nicely in Gnome apps thank you.