On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:51:20PM +0200, G�ran Uddeborg wrote: > Keld J�rn Simonsen writes: > > > > Is there a SIS standard for dates too, or are you referring to the ITS > > > standard mentioned previously? What is the number? > > > > Yes, there is a SIS standard for dates, I believe it is SIS/ISO 8601. > > But that is the ISO standard, not a specific Swedish standard.
Yes, it is an international standard that turned swedish. But actually I think it was a Swedish standard before it became an ISO standard, at least the sewdes had special notation for time periodes with a double hyphen, instead of a slash. The swedes changed it subsequently to a slash. > Then, on what do you base that this is meant for locales? It is an > international standard, meant in particular to define a format to > avoid confusion for dates when they may cross an international border. > (First paragraph in the introduction.) Also note in section 1 Scope: > "This International Standard is applicable whenever dates and times > are included in information interchange." Yes, it is an international standard, but it is also *the* Swedish standard. Evenmore it has become the defacto standard for Sweden, one of the few countries where even Microsift use the YYYY-MM-DD format as default. Also your persnoal identity numbers use this format. > While ISO 8601 is a good standard to use in many cases, and I often > do, for me it is quite opposite of a locale. A locale is meant for > information to be adapted to a particular country/language. If > information might need to be interpreted in more than one locale, it > should not be localised to one of them, it should use the C locale. > (Or the program should not do setlocale(), if it is a program which > always is used in such a context.) I believe Sweden is a country where the ISO 8601 standard has also become the local standard, as indicated above. Venlig hilsen Keld -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
