Re: Bug in old-locale?

Magnus Therning wrote:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:

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Hi

Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program:

import Data.Time import System.Locale

main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time

The above program prints:

Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC

Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see:

rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"

So what's up with %_d?

That looks like an error to me. According to the date(1) manpage, an underbar pads with spaces.

% date +"%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:50 SGT

It looks like old-locale and time have different ideas of date formats. Possibly this should be fixed in the time package. By the way, if old-locale is "old", what should be used instead? -- Ashley Yakeley