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Subject: [Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D4628

--- Comment #21 from David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org> ---
Any progress on this?

The legacy mm/dd and dd/mm forms started becoming obsolescent the moment it
became possible to conduct written communication between the US and Europe =
in
less time than it takes a steam ship to physically cross the Atlantic Ocean.

As a European, I am constantly bombarded with dates in the US-local form. F=
rom
crappy software, crappy web sites, and crappy people.=20

So when I see "1/2/2021" I have *absolutely no idea* whether that means Jan=
uary
2nd or February 1st. Even if it's the "right" historical format for my loca=
le,
it's still ambiguous. And that's why it's utterly wrong to be using that fo=
rmat
=E2=80=94 even the "correct" variant of it =E2=80=94 in the 21st century.

Well-behaved programs should only *ever* use the YYYY-MM-DD form for numeric
dates, and *never* the non-inclusive, ambiguous, parochial local forms mm/d=
d or
dd/mm.

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