From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 34677 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 13:55:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 33499 invoked by uid 48); 20 May 2016 13:54:12 -0000 From: "carlos at redhat dot com" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 13:55:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: carlos at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: REOPENED X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2016-q2/txt/msg00276.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D4628 Carlos O'Donell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |carlos at redhat dot com --- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell --- (In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #9) > (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #8) >=20 > > But not towards ISO 8601. People use =E2=80=9CThu, 2016-03-17 at 15:18= +0000=E2=80=9D > > (taken from )= .=20 > > But that's not even close to ISO 8601 (which goes far beyond =E2=80=9CY= YYY-MM-DD=E2=80=9D). >=20 > That's a strawman, the datetime concept does not exist in human language,= no > datetime will ever appear in human sentences (you'll get dates and times, > the format of which is perfectly appropriate in iso 8601 for humans). >=20 > Besides, iso 8601 is a very flexible spec, and provides for variations > whenever needed. The W3C profile is just a profile of iso 8601 (for HTML/= XML > code) Would it suffice to provide C.utf8@iso8601 for the purposes of overriding LC_TIME and allowing you to use ISO 8601 time representation in the fullest= ? We need not duplicate all locales, ISO 8601 is language independent. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.