System Date/Time Format Problems

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/3/11 4:58 PM, Pete wrote:
> I think I already mentioned this but I've entered QC report number 9604
> about all this.  There's various problems involved:
>
> 1) LC needs one more keyword so it can deal with the 4 date/time formats
> used by OS X.
> 2) There's a bug in the "abbrev system time" - it returns LC's default
> abbrev format, not the format in any of the OS X user preferences.
> 3) There's an inconsistency between the long system date and the long system
> time - the date returned is in the OS X full format, and the time is in the
> OS X medium format.
>
> These issues occur anywhere you refer to system dates and times, including
> the convert command.

They aren't bugs, they're legacy formats that go back 20 years, and 
changing them would break a lot of stacks. When these date/time formats 
were implemented they matched the ones in Mac OS 6 and 7, and probably 
still matched in OS 9, though I don't remember.

So rather than changing those, we should get new formats that represent 
more modern system options. This would be a feature request, so it would 
be good to update your report to reflect that.

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