On 2020-05-06 16:12:58 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2020-05-06 13:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: locales > > Version: 2.30-5 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > I'm using LC_TIME=en_DK for the ISO 8601 date format, i.e. when > > written with digits. But the default date format seems to be the > > same one as LC_TIME=C and should be improved. This has currently > > been done only for US: > > Please note that the en_US change is controversial and likely going to > be reverted. See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25923
I'm not sure whether this is the same thing as this one focuses on day/month ordering, but there's the place of the year (which was actually the main thing I was thinking about). > I guess the same argument will apply to other locales, ie that we should > change things that have been like that for decades. Concerning the year, there's also a lack of consistency in Canada: $ for i in $(locale -a | grep _CA); do printf "%-20s" $i; LC_TIME=$i date; done en_CA Wed May 6 17:42:39 CEST 2020 en_CA.utf8 Wed May 6 17:42:39 CEST 2020 fr_CA mercredi 6 mai 2020, 17:42:39 (UTC+0200) fr_CA.utf8 mercredi 6 mai 2020, 17:42:39 (UTC+0200) ik_CA Qit Sup 6 17:42:39 CEST 2020 iu_CA ᐱ ᒪᐃ 6 17:42:39 CEST 2020 shs_CA Ske Ell 6 17:42:39 CEST 2020 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
