Re: date bug solution

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:34 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Yes, the problem is when these differeing LANG and LANGUAGE settings.
> > Somehow you have that in your setup, so I worry that it might not be so
> > unusual. I haven't yet researched what the difference actually is
> > between
> > these two environment variables, or whether one should have preference
> > over the other.
[snip]
> In all honesty, I don't entirely understand the contents of that
> environment variable myself. The LANG and LANGUAGE variables both appear
> to get set in my /etc/environment file.
>
> I'm an Ubuntu user, and during installation, I have the distribution
> install support for US and GB English, and I have it use the US
> localization stuff as the default. That is probably how it happens.
>
> I did some googling, and I found some relevant information:
> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/locales-env-var.html

So, we have:

1.
LANGUAGE: This variable is a GNU extension and overrides LC_MESSAGES,
(even if LC_ALL is set).
1.1
LC_MESSAGES: Formats of informative and diagnostic messages and
interactive responses (also for graphical user interfaces).

2.
LANG: The value of this variable is used as the default value for all LC_*
variables which are not explicitly set.
2.1: LC_TIME Date and time formats.

So, I wonder whether LC_MESSAGES is meant to have any connection with
LC_TIME.



Murray Cumming
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