Listing FreeBSD extentions as such in utilities

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Oct 31 10:39:35 PST 2005


On 2005-10-31 12:14, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> %cvs diff -u date.1
> Index: date.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/date.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.72
> diff -u -r1.72 date.1
> --- date.1      13 Feb 2005 22:25:09 -0000      1.72
> +++ date.1      31 Oct 2005 17:11:53 -0000
> [...]
> +.Xr sh 1
> +shell understands environment variables such as
> +.Dl LC_TIME=C .
>  .Sh HISTORY
>  A
>  .Nm

I was under the impression that locale settings are understood by the
utilities themselves too, e.g. in commands like:

	  env LC_FOO=xxx date



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