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Re: [patch] 21.1 CVS ls-lisp.el -- Correct dired listing in w2k
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [patch] 21.1 CVS ls-lisp.el -- Correct dired listing in w2k |
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Sat, 05 Jan 2002 20:19:35 +0200 |
> From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:23:19 +0200
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> ! ;; It's unfortunate, that `strftime' down not return
> ! ;; 3-character month abbreviation in w32 system.
> ! ;; We cut the month here if the Month here manually.
> ! (substring (format-time-string "%b" time) 0 3)
I really don't think this is a good idea: how do we know that the
first 3 characters of a month name in an arbitrary language give an
unambiguous abbreviation, or even something sensible at all?