[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Evaluate date using C locale

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 19:30:35 CET 2008


On 12/4/08, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > This patch uses C locale to compute date for version.fs and
> > > > openbios-version.h instead of current locale.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You should use LC_ALL=C, not LANG=C; LANG provides a default for
> > > all the separate locale settings that aren't otherwise set, while
> > > LC_ALL overrides everything.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, you're right, but in fact LC_TIME should be enough.
> >
>
>  Not if the user has set LC_ALL already.

Maybe the timezone should be set to UTC as well.



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