Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-25 Thread Hank Knox
Here is the 'export' output related to locale: declare -x LANG="en_CA.utf8" declare -x LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8" declare -x LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8" declare -x LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8" declare -x LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8" declare -x LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8" declare -x

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
I see. If you "export" LC_TIME, then that may have priority ... Please check output of "export" My system is free from /etc/locale.conf My "export" output for locale related variables are only with declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8" declare -x LANGUAGE="en_US:en" Maybe changing example to use

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Hank Knox
locales-all got installed by this morning's full-upgrade, but the issue is the same. I think my problem is having an /etc/locale.conf file with a bunch of LC_ variables set. I don't know where that file came from, perhaps a previous installation that got copied into the new one. Hank On

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 pending On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 00:39 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Oops, > > I think your problem goes out if you install the locales-all package > > I forgot to ask: > > $ dpkg -l locales* > > If you didn't install locales-all package or generate

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Oops, I think your problem goes out if you install the locales-all package I forgot to ask: $ dpkg -l locales* If you didn't install locales-all package or generate fr_CA.UTF-8 locale data manually by running the following $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales You get English ... didn't I

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Hank Knox
I am a little embarrassed. A little digging revealed all the LC_ variables are set in /etc/locale.conf. I'm not sure how that file got set but the date suggests it was around the time I installed Debian. So either it came from a long-ago config file or something prompted me to set it. I think

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-24 Thread Hank Knox
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this. I was reading the Debian Reference shortly after a clean install of bullseye. (It's a very useful document, BTW, thanks for doing it.) However I have been running Debian for years and migrated some config files over from a previous

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-07-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... I agree this is probably not a bug but a user support problem. Let me add a comment: I chose to use $LANG to set the locale since that seems to be the way default install configures used by Debian system. Hank, if you are facing this issue on some default install system without

Bug#953075: debian-reference: Incorrect environment example for 'date' in section 1.5.2

2020-03-03 Thread Hank Knox
Package: debian-reference Version: 2.76 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, In section 1.5.2, The "$LANG" variable, one of the examples given, showing how to pass an environement variable to a shell command, doesn't work as expected. The example looks like: $ date Sun Jun 3 10:27:39 JST 2007 $