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coreutils: date's -d switch doesn't honour locale

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From: Paolo Benvenuto <[email protected]>
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Subject: coreutils: date's -d switch doesn't honour locale
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5
Severity: normal

Issuing the date command with the -d switch, I would expect that date interprets
the -d argument according to locales.

If I have a date as 21 Set 1996 (Set is the abbreviation
for italian settembre = english september), I expect the behaviour

$ env LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8 date -d "21 Set 1996"
sab set 21 00:00:00 AST 1996

On the contrary it gives

date: invalid date `21 Set 1996'

apparently there isn't a way to tell date that the -d argument is in italian locale.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=es_DO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_DO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                      2.2.41-1    Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.30.27-3   SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

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