System.Locale is broken?

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:50:11PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>  
> > System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale, which appears to be taken 
> > directly from
> > the Haskell report, is hard-coded to american english 
> > settings... which
> > seems to defeat the purpose of the module.  Are there plans 
> > to provide the actual locale?
> > 
> > I have users who would like to have their times formatted according to
> > their own locale.  I'd rather not have to do this using the 
> > FFI to access the C library. :(
> 
> We can't change Locale.defaultTimeLocale, because the Haskell 98 report
> specifies it.  OTOH, I agree that it should do something reasonable.  We
> can change System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale to be locale-specific: if you
> have some code, I'll incorporate it (assuming there are no objections).

I have code to get the current time format and various other locale
settings at

http://repetae.net/john/computer/haskell/Locale.hsc

setupLocale needs to be called at least once, but I think it is not
necessary because the ghc runtime does the equivalant.
        John

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