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

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Issue #1198 has been updated by Gordon Ross.


[Copied my note 8 from 1030]

It does seem that the "%x" format is more commonly defined as
some permutation of "%Y", "%m", "%d" (and not "%e"), so
the result of %x will usually not contain spaces.

I did a "grep d_fmt" in $SRC/cmd/localedef/data
and the result is an interesting hodge-podge.
In general, the locale-specific aspects of d_fmt
are (1) the order, and (2) the separators.

Beyond that, most (all?) should use %Y rather than %y,
and where the day of the month is somewhere other than
the start of the d_fmt string, probably should be %d so
there will not be spaces within the result. (A space
at the front is probably harmless, so locales that use
d_fmt=%e/%m/%Y (for example) are probably fine.)

I suggest we cleanup the d_fmt definitions per above.

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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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