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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 06:51:18 -0800
From: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>
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Subject: Re: Better battery info/status files
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David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote:
>
> > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be
> > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres,
> > and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that
> > neither could count as universal...
>
> Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
> echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
>
> -

Just an idea, . .  but isn't this something better done in userland?

(ben@Deacon)-(06:49am Sun Feb  4)-(ben)
$ date  +%s
981298161
(ben@Deacon)-(06:49am Sun Feb  4)-(ben)
$ date  +%c
Sun Feb  4 06:49:24 2001


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