From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 124579 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 23:28:16 -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 122874 invoked by uid 48); 20 May 2016 23:27:08 -0000 From: "gunnarhj at ubuntu 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 23:28:00 -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: gunnarhj at ubuntu 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/msg00284.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D4628 --- Comment #17 from Gunnar Hjalmarsson --- On 2016-05-20 23:08, carlos at redhat dot com wrote: > --- Comment #16 from Carlos O'Donell ---=20 > (In reply to Gunnar Hjalmarsson from comment #15) >> On 2016-05-20 17:30, carlos at redhat dot com wrote: >>> Does that clarify why non-English speakers should be able to set=20 >>> LC_TIME to C@iso8601? >>=20 >> I'm afraid it isn't that easy. LC_TIME includes month and weekday >> names, which are often used by e.g. calendar apps. >=20 > Then you don't want LC_TIME to follow ISO 8601? I want to encourage/make it easier (not enforce) to use ISO 8601 like date = and time formats. That's one thing. Another thing is that LC_TIME unfortunately= (?) includes localized month and weekday names. > Which might look like `export LC_TIME=3Den_US:C@iso8601` which says use > US English language information for language-specific requirements, > but consider the territory to be generic and following ISO 8601. >=20 > I expect language specific entries would be: > - abday > - day > - abmon > - mon If those could be broken out from LC_TIME somehow, it would indeed make some things easier. Suppose it whouldn't be easily accomplished, though... --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.