From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] locale.5: remove the FIXME for timezone Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:18:03 +0200 Message-ID: <557B225B.90200@gmail.com> References: <5576F5E2.7050301@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5576F5E2.7050301-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 06/09/2015 04:19 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote: > Hi Michael, > > the timezone of LC_TIME is not in POSIX, only 6 (out of ~300) > glibc locales define it, the glibc code comment below from > glibc.git/programs/ld-time.c seems to suggest it's not a good > idea, and there's been a proposal in upstream [1] to remove the > existing timezone definitions from glibc locales so I think > it's actually better to leave this one undocumented: Thanks, Marko. Applied. Cheers, Michael > /* XXX We don't perform any tests on the timezone value since this is > simply useless, stupid $&$!@... */ > > 1) https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00098.html > > Move the remaining LC_COLLATE FIXMEs together while at it. > > --- > man5/locale.5 | 10 ++++------ > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5 > index 2a2edc1..556c745 100644 > --- a/man5/locale.5 > +++ b/man5/locale.5 > @@ -512,6 +512,10 @@ in the first column. > > The following keywords are allowed: > .\" FIXME The following LC_COLLATE keywords are not documented: > +.\" reorder-after > +.\" reorder-end > +.\" reorder-sections-after > +.\" reorder-sections-end > .\" script > .\" symbol-equivalence > .TP > @@ -534,11 +538,6 @@ or > The order definition consists of lines that describe the order > and is terminated with the keyword > .IR order_end . > -.\" FIXME The following LC_COLLATE keywords are not documented: > -.\" reorder-after > -.\" reorder-end > -.\" reorder-sections-after > -.\" reorder-sections-end > .PP > The > .B LC_COLLATE > @@ -1073,7 +1072,6 @@ The following keywords are allowed: > .\" era_d_fmt > .\" era_d_t_fmt > .\" era_t_fmt > -.\" timezone > .TP > .I abday > followed by a list of abbreviated names of the days of the week. > > Thanks, > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html