- /* Note that under non-English locales Solaris strptime() fails
- to recognize English dates, which renders it useless for this
- purpose. We solve this by not setting LC_TIME when
- initializing locale. Another solution would be to
- temporarily set locale to C, invoke strptime(), and restore
- it back, but that is somewhat slow and dirty.
-
- GNU strptime does not have this problem because it recognizes
- both international and local dates. */
+ /* Note that under non-English locales Solaris strptime fails to
+ recognize English dates. We work around this by not setting
+ the LC_TIME category. Another way would be to temporarily
+ set locale to C before invoking strptime, but that's slow and
+ messy. GNU strptime does not have this problem because it
+ recognizes English dates along with the local ones. */