Re: use of locale in "ls" again

[Markus Kuhn]

> While we're on that subject, I still don't sense that we have a good
> consensus

I personally don't think there is anything wrong whatsoever with your
"MM-DD hh:mm" and "YYYY-MM-DD" notation. It is pretty obvious to any
even mildly intelligent user what it means and it has an excellent
information per character ratio. It is clearly the notation that I would
prefer most for my own personal use based on its obvious practical
advantages. I'd really forget about the entire cultural/political/
international correctness hogwash. Such easy-to-quote conventions were
created for mere practical reason by people like yourself not too long
ago, and although not everyone notices, they do change almost from
generation to generation. I definitely *do* like your next generation
date format, and I hope many others will discover its convenience as
well.

Remember, we are engineers, not diplomats. This entire localization
thing is getting a bit out of hand when people place historic
faithfulness to pre-computer ideosyncracies over common-sense
practicality and reliability criteria. There is absolutely no practical
reason, why all-numeric dates have to be language or country dependent.
The optimality criteria are the same all over the planet, namely to make
good use of sacred column space. Let's focus on the conventions of the
future, because that is where we will spend the rest of our lives.

I rest my case, your honour.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>