[Info-vax] [OT] Linux vs Windows vs OS X. Was Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-20, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> In article <nospam-3395ED.21543919012013 at news.chingola.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>                           and particularly when I wanted a non-US date 
>> format (which seems strange when you consider that Canonical is a UK 
>> company).
>
> I can't believe that is that difficult.  Date format where?  Wouldn't that
> be application specific rather than something the OS does?  Date in the
> OS is always ticks since the epoch.
>

Only an American could have made that comment. :-)

FYI, approximately 95% of the world's population lives outside of the
US border (with their own conventions) and there are well established
ways for handling this.

The country specific attributes (currency symbols, date format, etc) are
set at operating system level and the application is expected to acquire
those values from the machine it is running on.

These settings, while they can be changed at application level in some
applications, most certainly are not application specific.

Simon.

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