From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102496 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 14:04:24 -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 79952 invoked by uid 48); 20 May 2016 14:03:37 -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 14:04:00 -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: 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/msg00278.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D4628 --- Comment #12 from Carlos O'Donell --- (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #11) > (In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #10) > > Would it suffice to provide C.utf8@iso8601 for the purposes of overridi= ng > > LC_TIME and allowing you to use ISO 8601 time representation in the ful= lest? > > We need not duplicate all locales, ISO 8601 is language independent. >=20 > See comment 6, there are many different expectations what =E2=80=9CISO 86= 01=E2=80=9D means.=20 Aesop's fable of the man, the boy, and the donkey ends with: "Please all and you will please none." I think the only tenable situation is to implement ISO 8601 as standardized. > For size reasons, it's probably better to base the additional locales on = C, > not C.utf8. Sure, that's fine, the ISO8601 representation needs only ASCII. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.