[Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628

David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org> ---
In the 21st century where international communication is instant and frequent,
colloquial use is changing.

To use the parochial local date forms, especially mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy, is no
longer really acceptable in much of our day-to-day communication.

To use them in a context where they are seen outside your own locale is
impolite and unprofessional, and basically marks you as an idiot.

Even using them in the *local* context, the recipients still need to stop and
think about who you are and to whom you were speaking, to work out if this
really is "local form" or whether you're just another idiot from further afield
who can't be bothered to communicate properly. (If a European sends email to an
American and CC's another European, what does '5/6/16' mean? Just don't do it.)

I think there is a strong case not only for defining something like @ISO
versions of all the locales, but also for distributions to select those by
*default*. Much as we did a number of years ago for UTF-8. The colloquial use
was changing then too... it's just that some people were dragged along kicking
and screaming by the change of the default :)

This is one of the cases where we need to *help* the colloquial use change
faster than it already is.

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