Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> pei@bell:~$ date +%A
> Friday
>
> pei@bell:~$ LC_MESSAGES=de_DE@euro date +%A
> Friday
>
> pei@bell:~$ LC_TIME=de_DE@euro date +%A
> Freitag
>
> Is there no API to get the localized names from the C library so that LC_TIME
> takes effect?
>
What about using strftime()? So we couldn't worry about gettext
translations; "all" is localized.
Why didn't I think it before? :-)

I'll try to code a patch today later if noone objects.

PS> I was thinking about changing this for the same reasons Peter
pointed out; I didn't have the time to do it before.

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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
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