[Bug localedata/23724] Albanian date formats are incorrect

["digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23724

--- Comment #2 from Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com> ---
I think it is not a problem because it is only how the dates are displayed,
also it does not mean that using 4 digits is impossible.  Y2K problem, as far
as I understand it, is about how dates are stored internally.  If some locale
conventions want to display year using 2 digits I think it is OK.  A good
argument for me is when CLDR says so.  Your link shows that 4 digits are also
used in Albanian language, it does not mean that 2 digit year is prohibited.

A quick grep shows that there are currently 106 locales using "%y" in d_fmt
including POSIX and the default C locale (a fallback when setting a locale
fails) plus 8 locales using "%Oy" or "%Ey", compared to the total of 294
locales which actually provide d_fmt (rather than using "copy").  I don't mind
if we set a rule which says that "%y" should never be suggested by glibc by
default and "%Y" should be used instead but we would have to change POSIX and C
locales as well which I think is out of our scope.

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