Locale-Specific Behavior(G.4)

(7.12.1) The local time zone and Daylight Savings Time:

The local time zone is set by the environment variable TZ.

(7.12.2.1) The era for the clock function

The era for the clock is represented as clock ticks with the origin at the beginning of the execution of the program.

The following characteristics of a hosted environment are locale-specific:

(5.2.1) The content of the execution character set, in addition to the required members:

Locale-specific (no extension in C locale).

(5.2.2) The direction of printing:

Printing is always left to right.

(7.1.1) The decimal-point character:

Locale-specific ("." in C locale).

(7.3) The implementation-defined aspects of character testing and case mapping functions:

Same as 4.3.1.

(7.11.4.4) The collation sequence of the execution character set:

Locale-specific (ASCII collation in C locale).

(7.12.3.5) The formats for time and date:

Locale-specific. Formats for the C locale are shown in the tables below.

Table B-9 Names of Months

January	May	September
February	June	October
March	July	November
April	August	December

The names of the months are:

The names of the days of the week are:

Table B-10 Days and Abbreviated Days of the Week

Days		Abbreviated Days
Sunday	Thursday	Sun	Thu
Monday	Friday	Mon	Fri
Tuesday	Saturday	Tue	Sat
Wednesday		Wed

The format for time is:

%H:%M:%S

The format for date is:

%m/%d/%y

The formats for AM and PM designation are: AM PM