On 10 December 2013 12:35, Marko Myllynen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-12-10 02:49, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 12/09/2013 08:22 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote: >>>>> It seems like it would be reasonable to add some sort of modifier to the >>>>> existing %:::z to request suppression of leading 0. If we didn't have >>>>> back-compat to worry about, I'd even suggest making %:::z be the short >>>>> form, and %0:::z be the 0-padded form. >> >>>> sorry for the delayed reply and thanks for your insights - I've now >>>> filed http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=772 so let's see how it goes. >>> >>> the request has been rejected on the basis that there are no current >>> implementations. >> >> The rejection also mentioned that an appropriate setting of TZ can >> already be used to achieve what you want: >> >> TZ="<UTC+3>+3<UTC+4>" date >> >> In other words, if setting TZ is already sufficient, then why >> standardize anything else? > > sorry, I think I was being a bit unclear earlier - I used date as an > example but the goal was to be able to adjust the fi_FI locale so that > it would produce correct time strings. I've added this clarification to > the above request as well.
Hi Marko, I wonder would it be easier to ask Finnish localization recommendation group to reconsider the format, with emphasis they should choose something that is already supported. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
