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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: normal
The command date doesn't permit inputting dates in a language other than
english.
For example, with my spanish locale I can't isuue:
# date -s "3 septiembre"
in spanish as I issue
# date -s "3 september"
in english.
I think the names of the months should be permitted in one's locales.
Same problem with the names of the days of the week.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=es_DO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_DO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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tags 415359 +wontfix upstream
quit
I don't disagree that it would be nice to do this. If someone were to
implement it, I'm sure that it would be given consideration. The code
that implements the date parsing routines is already pretty hairy,
though.
Mike Stone
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