13 Apr
2004
13 Apr
'04
8:50 a.m.
System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale, which appears to be taken directly from the Haskell report, is hard-coded to american english settings... which seems to defeat the purpose of the module. Are there plans to provide the actual locale?
I have users who would like to have their times formatted according to their own locale. I'd rather not have to do this using the FFI to access the C library. :(
We can't change Locale.defaultTimeLocale, because the Haskell 98 report specifies it. OTOH, I agree that it should do something reasonable. We can change System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale to be locale-specific: if you have some code, I'll incorporate it (assuming there are no objections). Cheers, Simon