[kronolith] kronolith: two post-install snags

[cjdl01]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>
>>>> Looks like you have a broken nl_langinfo implementation on your  
>>>> system. It returns a strftime format specifier (%r) that isn't  
>>>> even supported by your strftime implementation. So it might  
>>>> actually be a bug in strftime instead, because %r is supposed to  
>>>> be supported on all platforms.
>>>
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> I don't really know anything about C programming and how to use  
>>> libraries, and my google searches are just getting me frustrated.   
>>> Is there a way to test your hypotheses on my system?  Some quick  
>>> and dirty code that can send me down the right path?  -Or- is  
>>> there a quick and dirty way to hack the kronolith code to get this  
>>> information some other way?  Maybe something in the prefs file?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> I know you are busy, but I was wondering if you had a minute if you  
>> could advise me on this?  I'd like to sort that out, since it does  
>> cause confusion for my users.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -Chris
>
> Try this snippet of C code:
>
> #include <langinfo.h>
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
>
> main()
> {
>   char *locale, *fmt_C, *fmt_US;
>   char result[200];
>   time_t now;
>   struct tm *t;
>
>   now = time(NULL);
>   t = localtime(&now);
>
>   locale = setlocale(LC_TIME, "C");
>   fmt_C = nl_langinfo(T_FMT);
>   strftime(result, 200, fmt_C, t);
>   printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n", locale, fmt_C, result);
>
>   locale = setlocale(LC_TIME, "en_US.UTF-8");
>   fmt_US = nl_langinfo(T_FMT);
>   strftime(result, 200, fmt_US, t);
>   printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n", locale, fmt_US, result);
>
>   return 0;
> }
>
> Compiling (gcc file.c) and running (./a.out) should print something like:
>
> C
> %H:%M:%S
> 11:36:30
> en_US.UTF-8
> %r
> 11:36:30 AM
>
> -- 
> Jan Schneider
> The Horde Project
> http://www.horde.org/

Thank you.  I learned something new.

The output looks good:

C
%H:%M:%S
09:47:45
en_US.UTF-8
%r
09:47:45 AM

So the problem must lie elsewhere, eh?

-Chris