[darcs-users] Is `darcs log` date format configurable?

[Ben Franksen]

Sorry for the (extremely) belated reply.

It is currently not possible to do this because we use some ancient 
self-written code to format the timestamp that doesn't take system 
settings such as your current locale into consideration.

It would be easy to change that -- in fact this is a perfect 
beginner-level exercise in getting acquainted with the Darcs code base. 
The relevant module is Darcs.Util.IsoDate.

Any volunteers? I am willing to baby-sit beginners until they can 
navigate the code base (and the contribution procedure) by themselves.

Cheers
Ben

On 5/2/22 23:04, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2022 22:27:22 +0200
> Marcos Cruz <darcs_users_list at programandala.net> wrote:
> 
>> Karl O. Pinc escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2022-04-29T13:58:58-0500):
>>
>>> LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 darcs log
>>> Using the stock debian 10 darcs (2.14.5) this does not do anything.
>>> Try it with the newer darcs and if it does not work please
>>> complain. :)
>>
>> Thanks, but it does not work for me either (newer Darcs compiled on
>> Debian 10.12). I also edited </etc/locale.conf> and
>> </etc/default/locale> after the locales documentation: the value of
>> `LC_TIME` changes after rebooting, as expected, but it makes no
>> difference; even `date` ignores it. I'll investigate further.
>>
>> I guess Darcs uses the date format of the current locale and there's
>> no way to change that.
> 
> I don't really know, but was under the impression that changing
> LC_TIME is supposed to change the date format of the current locale.
> 
> This would be a convenient way to frob the log timestamp, but
> it looks like darcs does not pay attention to LC_TIME.
> 
> (Or I'm just not understanding how localization is supposed to work.
> Or even if it did work it'd be hackery and there's supposed to be
> a better way.  Or...)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl <kop at karlpinc.com>
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