On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:14:34PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:38:01 +0200: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:24:21AM +0100, Miguel Almeida wrote: > > > And also, what does > > > the LC_ALL=C part mean in the line you suggest? > > > > It implies LC_CTIME=C, which for in some cases controls how the date > > will be formatted on systems that support the LC_TIME locale. > > Setting LC_TIME to "C" guarantees the default POSIX formatting > > rules will be used. > > What Stefan and Ryan said. > > I just want to add that if LC_ALL and LC_CTIME are both set then the > former wins, so portable code should set LC_ALL rather than LC_CTIME (to > account for LC_ALL=randomvalue being possibly set in the environment).
Ooops, it's actually LC_TIME, not LC_CTIME. Typo on my part.
