make check fails on strftime if the locale setting is not english.

[steve-anunknown]

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not because I am not aware of the desired behaviour.

When running "make check" all of the tests pass except 2 tests:

1. In file jq.test:

strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y")
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"Tuesday, June 30, 2015"

2. In file optional.test:

strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y")
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"Tuesday, June 30, 2015"

For each case the logs (test-suite.log) mention:
1)*** Expected "Tuesday, June 30, 2015", but got "Τρίτη, Ιουνίου 30, 2015" for test at line number 1564: strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y")
2)*** Expected "Tuesday, June 30, 2015", but got "Τρίτη, Ιουνίου 30, 2015" for test at line number 18: strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y")

I believe that this is related to the locale setting. The output of the "locale" regarding time is:

> locale | grep LC_TIME
LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8

Changing the locale setting to en_US.utf-8 with export LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 and running make check, results to all of the tests passing.

I don't know what the expected behavior is, but my opinion is that locale settings could be taken into consideration, so that these tests don't fail, given that the output is actually correct.

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64
• jq : jq-1.7.1-25-g623d7a8

[emanuele6]

Thank you for this report!