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26.1; tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates despite TIME_STYLE=long-iso

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.1; tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates despite
 TIME_STYLE=long-iso
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:02 +1000

This is a minor issue.

Middle-endian ("US style") dates confuse me.
I set TIME_STYLE=long-iso so I won't have to deal with them.
This works for GNU ls and GNU tar:

    bash5$ touch x; ls -l x; tar cf x.tar x; tar tvf x.tar
    -rw-r--r-- 1 twb twb 0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
    -rw-r--r-- twb/twb           0 2020-05-12 14:32 x

This doesn't work for tar-mode, because
it processes tarballs using native elisp:

    bash5$ emacs -Q -eval '(setq-default tar-mode-show-date t)' x.tar
     -rw-r--r--     twb/twb           0 May 12 14:33 2020 x

The responsible code appears to be tar-clip-time-string which appears to
munge the output of CURRENT-TIME-STRING:

    (defun tar-clip-time-string (time)
      (let ((str (current-time-string time)))
        (concat " " (substring str 4 16) (format-time-string " %Y" time))))

Where CURRENT-TIME-STRING appears to be hard-coded to a format.
That format matches neither
GNU "date --rfc-email" (little-endian) nor
GNU "date --rfc-3339=seconds" (big-endian).

Surely emacs already supports locale-appropriate timestamps somewhere?
Please hook up tar-mode to use that code.

PS: see also "locale -k date_fmt", which these days seems to be the same
for me (en_AU.UTF-8) and the default (C.UTF-8), hence why I use TIME_STYLE.

Message #8 received at 41201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
Cc: 41201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41201: 26.1;
 tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates despite
 TIME_STYLE=long-iso
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 18:50:51 +0300

> From: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:02 +1000
> 
> Middle-endian ("US style") dates confuse me.
> I set TIME_STYLE=long-iso so I won't have to deal with them.
> This works for GNU ls and GNU tar:
> 
>     bash5$ touch x; ls -l x; tar cf x.tar x; tar tvf x.tar
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 twb twb 0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
>     -rw-r--r-- twb/twb           0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
> 
> This doesn't work for tar-mode, because
> it processes tarballs using native elisp:
> 
>     bash5$ emacs -Q -eval '(setq-default tar-mode-show-date t)' x.tar
>      -rw-r--r--     twb/twb           0 May 12 14:33 2020 x

This is already fixed in what will become Emacs 27.1: there we display
the date in the yy-mm-dd format.  You can find the latest pretest of
Emacs 27.1 on alpha.gnu.org.

Thanks.

Message #13 received at 41201-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>, 41201-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41201: 26.1; tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates
 despite TIME_STYLE=long-iso
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 07:50:31 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:02 +1000
>>
>> Middle-endian ("US style") dates confuse me.
>> I set TIME_STYLE=long-iso so I won't have to deal with them.
>> This works for GNU ls and GNU tar:
>>
>>     bash5$ touch x; ls -l x; tar cf x.tar x; tar tvf x.tar
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 twb twb 0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
>>     -rw-r--r-- twb/twb           0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
>>
>> This doesn't work for tar-mode, because
>> it processes tarballs using native elisp:
>>
>>     bash5$ emacs -Q -eval '(setq-default tar-mode-show-date t)' x.tar
>>      -rw-r--r--     twb/twb           0 May 12 14:33 2020 x
>
> This is already fixed in what will become Emacs 27.1: there we display
> the date in the yy-mm-dd format.  You can find the latest pretest of
> Emacs 27.1 on alpha.gnu.org.

Since this is already fixed, I'm closing this bug report now.

Please reopen the bug or open a new one if you can still reproduce this
on Emacs 27.1 or later.

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