locales

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Why does GNU date output

Tue Jan 17 14:55:35 GMT 2006

instead of the English

Tue 17 Jan 2006 14:55:35 GMT

? My LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. Setting LC_TIME and LC_ALL changes nothing. locale's output looks fine - what's wrong here? Replies to mjr at phonecoop.coop please.

Update: Brett solved it: GNU date only uses the locale if you run "date +%c" instead of just "date". I knew that once, but had forgotten it. Thanks, Brett!

Update: Loïc Corbasson speculates that the default mix of native abbreviations and US ordering is to help scripts that use awk, cut and so on. Thanks, Loïc!

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