retitle 859311 -D date is not set automatically according to locale
severity 859311 minor
thanks
Hello Steve,
this just came in to the Debian BTS, cf.
<https://bugs.debian.org/859311>.
I'm not sure where tree stands with regard to this issue:
On the one hand, it is not unreasonable for a user to expect their
locale to be automatically respected. Following this view, this issue
would be present, albeit of minor severity as it only affects a single
suboption.
On the other hand, tree already offers the --timefmt option so users can
format the date as desired. Following this view, this issue might be a
wontfix, or might perhaps just warrant adding a pointer in the manpage,
mentioning --timefmt in the paragraph exlaining -D.
What is your take on this matter?
For the time being, I have taken the former position and marked the
bugreport accordingly ...
Cheers,
Flo
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Package: tree
Versioin: 1.7.0-3
Tested with Debian 7 and 8
The package tree does not use LC_TIME
./tree –D always use US time format e.g. Dec instead of Dez like with ./ls –la
Everything else TZ and special characters e.g. ä ö ß are correct and the same
as with ./ls –la
locale show correct LC_TIME set to de_DE.UTF-8
Thx
Tom
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