Re: [PATCH] locale.5: remove the FIXME for timezone

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On 06/09/2015 04:19 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> the timezone of LC_TIME is not in POSIX, only 6 (out of ~300)
> glibc locales define it, the glibc code comment below from
> glibc.git/programs/ld-time.c seems to suggest it's not a good
> idea, and there's been a proposal in upstream [1] to remove the
> existing timezone definitions from glibc locales so I think
> it's actually better to leave this one undocumented:


Thanks, Marko. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> /* XXX We don't perform any tests on the timezone value since this is
>    simply useless, stupid $&$!@...  */
> 
> 1) https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00098.html
> 
> Move the remaining LC_COLLATE FIXMEs together while at it.
> 
> ---
>  man5/locale.5 |   10 ++++------
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index 2a2edc1..556c745 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -512,6 +512,10 @@ in the first column.
>  
>  The following keywords are allowed:
>  .\" FIXME The following LC_COLLATE keywords are not documented:
> +.\" 	reorder-after
> +.\" 	reorder-end
> +.\" 	reorder-sections-after
> +.\" 	reorder-sections-end
>  .\" 	script
>  .\" 	symbol-equivalence
>  .TP
> @@ -534,11 +538,6 @@ or
>  The order definition consists of lines that describe the order
>  and is terminated with the keyword
>  .IR order_end .
> -.\" FIXME The following LC_COLLATE keywords are not documented:
> -.\" 	reorder-after
> -.\" 	reorder-end
> -.\" 	reorder-sections-after
> -.\" 	reorder-sections-end
>  .PP
>  The
>  .B LC_COLLATE
> @@ -1073,7 +1072,6 @@ The following keywords are allowed:
>  .\"	era_d_fmt
>  .\"	era_d_t_fmt
>  .\"	era_t_fmt
> -.\"	timezone
>  .TP
>  .I abday
>  followed by a list of abbreviated names of the days of the week.
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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