On 30/01/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/29/07, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga <humberto at hpcf.upr.edu> wrote: > > Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com wrote: > > > As I said, we migh look into it, but AFAIK this would mean we either > > > modify the current locale (really nasty) or create a pseudo-locale with > > > the user setting (just nasty). Unless someone has better idea or > > > understanding of the POSIX locales. Either way, I'd feel we would be the > > > only UNIX system doing this (does OSX do it too?). Ideas welcome. > > Here's what the terminal thinks is my locale information: > > > > $ locale > > LANG= > > LC_COLLATE="C" > > LC_CTYPE="C" > > LC_MESSAGES="C" > > LC_MONETARY="C" > > LC_NUMERIC="C" > > LC_TIME="C" > > LC_ALL="C" > > I believe that the "C" just means that it uses the current locale for > those settings. C is actually a locale definition. If you've got a *nix machine handy (I've only tested on Linux, but it should be similar on any POSIX-compliant system), you can: * use "locale -a" to get a list of available locales * use "export LC_TIME=$(locale_name)" to set your locale (eg, "export LC_TIME=C" to switch to the C locale) * use "locale -v -c LC_TIME" to see the full definition of LC_TIME for that locale I just did a quick comparison of the C and de_DE locales on a linux machine I had handy - the full diff is below, and I've attached the full files The main difference, as far as this conversation goes, would be these lines: C locale: %H:%M:%S %I:%M:%S %p de_DE locale: %T <blank line> These format strings are as per date(1). In the C locale, there's a definition for both 12-hour time (second line) and 24-hour time (first line). In the de_DE locale, there's only 24-hour time. If Nokia don't care about this and stubbornly refuse to support their users, which seems to be the case, it shouldn't be hard for us to create our own locales and use them. I'd work on this right now, but my N800 is still in transit... give me a week or two :) There's a detailed guide to LC_TIME at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.files/doc/aixfiles/LC_TIME.htm [root at rhel1 ~]# diff C de_DE 2,10c2,9 < Sun;Mon;Tue;Wed;Thu;Fri;Sat < Sunday;Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday < Jan;Feb;Mar;Apr;May;Jun;Jul;Aug;Sep;Oct;Nov;Dec < January;February;March;April;May;June;July;August;September;October;November;December < AM;PM < %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y < %m/%d/%y < %H:%M:%S < %I:%M:%S %p --- > So;Mo;Di;Mi;Do;Fr;Sa > Sonntag;Montag;Dienstag;Mittwoch;Donnerstag;Freitag;Samstag > Jan;Feb;M?r;Apr;Mai;Jun;Jul;Aug;Sep;Okt;Nov;Dez > Januar;Februar;M?rz;April;Mai;Juni;Juli;August;September;Oktober;November;Dezember > ; > %a %d %b %Y %T %Z > %d.%m.%Y > %T 17d15 < 0 18a17,18 > 0 > S 20c20 < 19971130 --- > 19971201 22c22 < 7 --- > 1 27c27 < ANSI_X3.4-1968 --- > ISO-8859-1 -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: de_DE Type: application/octet-stream Size: 317 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070130/b0ab4e28/attachment.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: en_AU Type: application/octet-stream Size: 334 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070130/b0ab4e28/attachment-0001.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: C Type: application/octet-stream Size: 351 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070130/b0ab4e28/attachment-0002.obj
