Defect report from : Gunnar Ritter , n/a
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Problem:
Edition of Specification (Year): 2003
Defect code : 3. Clarification required
The following text in utilities/mailx.html,
# LC_TIME
# Determine the format and contents of the date and time strings written by
mailx.
seems to imply that all date and time strings written by mailx should be
affected by the current locale. However, this may not affect date and time
strings in Internet email and following the Unix 'From_' lines, because it
would otherwise violate RFC 2822 or confuse implementations, respectively.
Existing implementations seem to follow this rule in general.
Moreover, existing implementations generally seem to simply copy the date and
time string following the 'From_' line of messages to the output when
displaying header summaries. In effect, date and time strings are thus always
shown as in the POSIX locale.
In IEEE Std 1003.2-1992, the text for LC_TIME was 'this variable may determine
. . .'. This is still mentioned in the current rationale, but not in the
standards text.
Action:
In any case, it should be made clear that LC_TIME does not apply to any parts
of message formats, even if these formats are outside the scope of POSIX anyway.
LC_TIME should be made optional for mailx again.
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