Re: RFE: Modification to the Timezone Modifier

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

On 2013-12-10 02:49, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 08:22 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>>> It seems like it would be reasonable to add some sort of modifier to the
>>>> existing %:::z to request suppression of leading 0.  If we didn't have
>>>> back-compat to worry about, I'd even suggest making %:::z be the short
>>>> form, and %0:::z be the 0-padded form.
> 
>>> sorry for the delayed reply and thanks for your insights - I've now
>>> filed http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=772 so let's see how it goes.
>>
>> the request has been rejected on the basis that there are no current
>> implementations.
> 
> The rejection also mentioned that an appropriate setting of TZ can
> already be used to achieve what you want:
> 
> TZ="<UTC+3>+3<UTC+4>" date
> 
> In other words, if setting TZ is already sufficient, then why
> standardize anything else?

sorry, I think I was being a bit unclear earlier - I used date as an
example but the goal was to be able to adjust the fi_FI locale so that
it would produce correct time strings. I've added this clarification to
the above request as well.

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen