From: Lucas Sandery <lucas.sandery@gmail.com>
To: bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
Subject: Four-digit years in en_AU, et al.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:31:12 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ccc749e-fe67-4dec-830d-78f055b62c52@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
From what I can see in the /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU file on my
system, the locale for Australia was last updated nearly 24 years ago,
when we were still adjusting to using 4 digits for years, post Y2K.
These days, it is much rarer to encounter 2-digit years in anything
other than very informal communication, and is generally discouraged.
See also
<https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conventions/numbers-and-measurements/dates-and-time#dont_write_dates_as_numerals_unless_space_is_limited>.
It would be great if GNU & Linux could catch up.
From a quick skim of
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country>, and the
number of other locales with "d_fmt" containing a 2-digit version, I
suspect many of them do not accurately reflect their dominant short date
format.
Cheers,
Lucas.
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