Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix

[Paul Eggert]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:

> you want me to give it a spin into the current Gentoo patchset for 
> coreutils-5.3.0 ?

Yes, please, if that's not too much trouble.  The idea here is to get
some real-user experience with --time-style="locale" defaulting to
long-iso if one's locale settings are messed up.  Maybe Gentoo users
never mess up their locales, so they'll never notice any difference;
but that'll be a data point too.  Let's put it this way: if the patch
causes problems with Gentoo users then we can be pretty sure that it
won't fly elsewhere and we should fix it before committing to it.


> too bad you cant jump to case labels ;)

Yes, well, my first version of the code looked like this:

   case long_iso_time_style:
        long_iso_time_style:

with a "goto long_iso_time_style;" elsewhere.  That's perfectly valid
and portable C.  But I decided it was too weird even for me.