Listing FreeBSD extentions as such in utilities

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-31 13:45, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:39:32 +0200
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> That works too.  I was just attempting to illustrate a point,
> without bloating the manual page.  Guess I could add
> "date" at the end there.  :)

You don't need to add anything about the LC_XXX variables, in my
opinion.  This is not something that is date(1)-specific and certainly
not against the standards.