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From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)"
	<mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: refer to strftime(3) where appropriate
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:18:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5576F5C8.7020903@redhat.com> (raw)

Hi Michael,

the relationship between the locale time format syntax
and strftime() cannot be considered as obvious.

---
 man5/locale.5 |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
index 374f6b2..2a2edc1 100644
--- a/man5/locale.5
+++ b/man5/locale.5
@@ -1106,16 +1106,25 @@ strings.
 This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention.
 .TP
 .I d_t_fmt
-followed by the appropriate date and time format.
+followed by the appropriate date and time format
+(for syntax, see
+.BR strftime ()).
 .TP
 .I d_fmt
-followed by the appropriate date format.
+followed by the appropriate date format
+(for syntax, see
+.BR strftime ()).
 .TP
 .I t_fmt
-followed by the appropriate time format.
+followed by the appropriate time format
+(for syntax, see
+.BR strftime ()).
 .TP
 .I t_fmt_ampm
-followed by the appropriate time format when using 12h clock format.
+followed by the appropriate time format
+(for syntax, see
+.BR strftime ())
+when using 12h clock format.
 This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention.
 .TP
 .I week
@@ -1169,7 +1178,9 @@ Right-left from top.
 .TP
 .I date_fmt
 followed by the appropriate date representation for
-.BR date (1).
+.BR date (1)
+(for syntax, see
+.BR strftime ()).
 .TP
 .I alt_digits
 followed by the alternative digits used for date and time in the locale.
@@ -1244,6 +1255,7 @@ This manual page isn't complete.
 .BR localeconv (3),
 .BR newlocale (3),
 .BR setlocale (3),
+.BR strftime (3),
 .BR uselocale (3),
 .BR charmap (5),
 .BR charsets (7),

Thanks,

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09 14:18 UTC|newest]

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2015-06-09 14:18 Marko Myllynen [this message]
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2015-06-12 18:18   ` [PATCH] locale.5: refer to strftime(3) where appropriate Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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