[bugs] [illumos gate - Bug #1198] date formats contain spaces where not expected

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Issue #1198 has been updated by Gordon Ross.


Here are some more observations from 
Gary Mills (sent to developers at illumos.org)

I kept wondering why I've never seen this problem.

This is Solaris 10, where we're still using 8859 locales:
<pre>
   $ env LC_TIME=en_CA.ISO8859-1 date +%x
   02/07/11
   $ env LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1 date +%x
   07/02/11
</pre>

This is Solaris 11 Express:
<pre>
   $ env LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8" date +%x
   07/02/11
   $ env LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" date +%x
   07/ 2/11
</pre>

This is OI 148:
<pre>
   $ env LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8" date +%x
   11-07-02
   $ env LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" date +%x
   07/ 2/11
</pre>
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Bug #1198: date formats contain spaces where not expected
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1198

Author: Gordon Ross
Status: New
Priority: Low
Assignee: Gordon Ross
Category: locale - data and messages
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


LANG=en_US.UTF-8 date '+%x'
has unexpected form in the first 9 days of the month:
<pre>
$ date '+%x'
05/ 6/11
</pre>
(Note the space before the numeral six)

The older 8859 did not do that.

This also used to break strptime, but that's fixed.
(https://www.illumos.org/issues/1030)



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