From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 10:02:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (show_date): Add a comment explaining why the
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_33~127
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8fc17df6789e8cbd3080464df48e32c089983e7c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(show_date): Add a comment explaining why the
format string must not be translatable via _().  From Paul Eggert.
---

diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c
index 23a2982862..b521d661d9 100644
--- a/src/date.c
+++ b/src/date.c
@@ -461,6 +461,13 @@ show_date (const char *format, time_t when)
       else
 	{
 	  char *date_fmt = DATE_FMT_LANGINFO ();
+	  /* Do not wrap the following literal format string with _(...).
+	     For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset, LC_TIME="POSIX",
+	     and LANG="ko_KR".	In that case, POSIX.2 says that LC_TIME
+	     determines the format and contents of date and time strings
+	     written by date, which means "date" must generate output
+	     using the POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date"
+	     to use a Korean translation of the format.  */
 	  format = *date_fmt ? date_fmt : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
 	}
     }