From ea7208a6aae62dbe7af43a21654d2d269ca41957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:18:48 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: Refer to strftime(3) where appropriate The relationship between the locale time format syntax and strftime() cannot be considered as obvious. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/locale.5 | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5 index 374f6b2ac..2a2edc19b 100644 --- a/man5/locale.5 +++ b/man5/locale.5 @@ -1106,16 +1106,25 @@ strings. This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention. .TP .I d_t_fmt -followed by the appropriate date and time format. +followed by the appropriate date and time format +(for syntax, see +.BR strftime ()). .TP .I d_fmt -followed by the appropriate date format. +followed by the appropriate date format +(for syntax, see +.BR strftime ()). .TP .I t_fmt -followed by the appropriate time format. +followed by the appropriate time format +(for syntax, see +.BR strftime ()). .TP .I t_fmt_ampm -followed by the appropriate time format when using 12h clock format. +followed by the appropriate time format +(for syntax, see +.BR strftime ()) +when using 12h clock format. This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention. .TP .I week @@ -1169,7 +1178,9 @@ Right-left from top. .TP .I date_fmt followed by the appropriate date representation for -.BR date (1). +.BR date (1) +(for syntax, see +.BR strftime ()). .TP .I alt_digits followed by the alternative digits used for date and time in the locale. @@ -1244,6 +1255,7 @@ This manual page isn't complete. .BR localeconv (3), .BR newlocale (3), .BR setlocale (3), +.BR strftime (3), .BR uselocale (3), .BR charmap (5), .BR charsets (7),