On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:18:41PM +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > That's all normal and expected. > > > > What's odd is that client *actually has* LC_NUMERIC and so on set in > > its environment. Which... is not a problem if they're all set to the > > correct values. It's weird, but not wrong. The problem for the OP > > was that one of the values was not set correctly, or at least not as > > expected. > > It's not weird at all. It's how many people set their machines, when > they have logical minds and prefer YYYY-MM-DD date format rather than > the illogical messes most countries have in their locales.
It's weird to set *every* LC_* variable when all you want to change is LC_TIME. I personally set LANG and LC_TIME. But I don't set the others. Why would I? That would be weird. unicorn:~$ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= As you can see, the only variables with unquoted, non-empty values are LANG and LC_TIME.
