Re: EPOCHREALTIME

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Le 19/08/2021 à 15:10, hancooper écrivait :
> Thusly, EPOCHREALTIME should not be made to depend on the locale.  I have seen 
> many
> workarounds, that complicate rather than simplify something that should be 
> straighforward
> and germaine to direct numeric computation.

A agree 100%

It is as frustrating as printf arguments format being dependent on 
locale settings:

This will fail because of questionable design decision of having a 
mutable argument format:

LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR@UTF-8; printf 'Pi: %2.4f\n` "$(bc -l <<<'4*a(1)')"

Note how the format indicator still use a dot, but the argument format's 
decimal separator is that of the system's locale.

Imagine if C++ or Java had methods with different signature depending on 
system locale. You would scream fool. But for Bash, it was decided it 
was all fine.

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