Re: date bug solution

[Ryan Paul <segphault sbcglobal net>]

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.
>
> What should "en_US:en_GB:en" mean, by the way? Is that a prioritized list?

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

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Ryan Paul <segphault sbcglobal net>