[plug] Time format in Debian Sarge

[Cameron Patrick]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> > Using the locale command, shows that each locale setting is "POSIX", 
> > except LC_ALL, which has no value assigned.
> 
> The POSIX locale, `C', is essentially en_US.ISO-8859-1 for all that it
> matters.

That's not quite true, it's actually limited to 7-bit ASCII for most
applications.  (e.g. mutt won't display any accented characters in a C
locale.)  There are also differences in things like collation order;
e.g. in a C locale, `ls` (and anything else that does a "proper"
locale dependent sort) will sort uppercase letters before lowercase
letters, but won't in en_*.*.

Cameron.