[Bug localedata/12582] New: Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[Bug localedata/12582] New: Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[b3virq3b at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12582

           Summary: Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com
        ReportedBy: b3virq3b@gmail.com


Downstream report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699886

Currently under English (Singapore) locale date_fmt is formatted like this:
Friday 07,January,2011 11:44:44 PM SGT

The commas are weird and are not the convention in Singapore. The attached
patch changes that and other related formats to better values:

t_fmt_ampm from "%I:%M:%S %p %Z" to "%I:%M:%S %p" (removed time zone; redundant
because Singapore spans only one time zone)
t_fmt from "%I:%M:%S  %Z" to "%T" (changed to 24h time)
d_t_fmt from "%A %d,%B,%Y %I:%M:%S  %Z" to "%a %d %b %Y %r" (removed awkward
commas, use abbreviated month names)
d_fmt from "%A %d,%B,%Y" to "%d/%m/%Y"

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[Bug localedata/12582] Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[b3virq3b at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12582

--- Comment #1 from KH Teo <b3virq3b at gmail dot com> 2011-03-14 14:21:40 UTC ---
Created attachment 5305
  --> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5305
Patch to en_SG

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[Bug localedata/12582] Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[drepper.fsp at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12582

Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2011-05-09 16:51:50 UTC ---
Where is the reference for the change?  And don't reference other bug report
systems, all the information must be entered here.

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[Bug localedata/12582] Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[b3virq3b at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12582

--- Comment #3 from KH Teo <b3virq3b at gmail dot com> 2011-05-13 16:08:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Where is the reference for the change? 

I'm not able to find a national standard for this, and in fact actual formats
used vary from site to site:

Government websites : http://www.gov.sg/ http://www.nlb.gov.sg/
Local newspapers: http://www.straitstimes.com/ http://www.todayonline.com/

However, my point is that the current format where the day/month/year are
delimited by commas does not reflect actual local usage. The formats I picked
in the patch are similar to those used in en_GB (due to Singapore's historical
links with the UK as a former colony.)

> And don't reference other bug report
> systems, all the information must be entered here.

Okay, but all information is presented here already.

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[Bug localedata/12582] Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

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Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2011-05-14 23:48:58 UTC ---
I looked around myself and found nothing resembling the current format.  The
patch is applied.  Next time provide a patch with a complete file name.

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[Bug localedata/12582] Incorrect date and time formats in en_SG locale

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

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Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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