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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  > I think it's rather disgusting that the locales get in the way of
  > using functions sensibly.  `format-time-string' is such a nice
  > function, but if it keeps growing in this annoying manner, it's
  > going to get rather useless after a while.

If only one knew how to set the locale from Lisp, then

  (let ((locale "C"))
    (format-time-string "..."))

would do something useful...  Oh, well.

kai
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