atool does not use localized data format

[Rory McCann]

atool -l, the command to list the files in an archive, prints the date of a file, but it does it in american month-day-year format. It should pick up the correct date format from the users environment.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Hi Rory,

I forwarded a copy of your bug report to Oskar, the lead atool developer and here's what he had to say:

"It is totally dependant on the underlying archiver unfortunately. I suspect the user in question was listing a zip archive. The unzip in debian seems to use the American date format and I know of no way to change that."

Cheers,
Francois

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Hi again Rory,

I'll mark this bug as "invalid" (for lack of a better status code) since the bug comes from another package.

Please try the same operation directly with unzip (or whatever archive type you were using) and file a new bug against that package if you can reproduce it.

Thanks for taking the time to report this. I'm sure that other non-american users would appreciate if this were fixed.

Francois