Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote: > I believe that leaving the default format unspecified, except for the > POSIX locale, was intentional. The same approach was taken for many > other utilities whose behaviour is affected by locale settings.
I guess that there are too many languages, that differ from the european centric date format, that you cannot define a specified format that does not at the same time makes many people on the world unhappy. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'