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On 2011-03-14T14:21:02+00:00 KH Teo wrote:

Downstream report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699886

Currently under English (Singapore) locale date_fmt is formatted like
this: Friday 07,January,2011 11:44:44 PM SGT

The commas are weird and are not the convention in Singapore. The
attached patch changes that and other related formats to better values:

t_fmt_ampm from "%I:%M:%S %p %Z" to "%I:%M:%S %p" (removed time zone; redundant 
because Singapore spans only one time zone)
t_fmt from "%I:%M:%S  %Z" to "%T" (changed to 24h time)
d_t_fmt from "%A %d,%B,%Y %I:%M:%S  %Z" to "%a %d %b %Y %r" (removed awkward 
commas, use abbreviated month names)
d_fmt from "%A %d,%B,%Y" to "%d/%m/%Y"

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/699886/comments/3

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On 2011-03-14T14:21:40+00:00 KH Teo wrote:

Created attachment 5305
Patch to en_SG

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/699886/comments/4

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On 2011-05-09T16:51:50+00:00 Drepper-fsp wrote:

Where is the reference for the change?  And don't reference other bug
report systems, all the information must be entered here.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/699886/comments/9

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On 2011-05-13T16:08:35+00:00 KH Teo wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)
> Where is the reference for the change? 

I'm not able to find a national standard for this, and in fact actual
formats used vary from site to site:

Government websites : http://www.gov.sg/ http://www.nlb.gov.sg/
Local newspapers: http://www.straitstimes.com/ http://www.todayonline.com/

However, my point is that the current format where the day/month/year
are delimited by commas does not reflect actual local usage. The formats
I picked in the patch are similar to those used in en_GB (due to
Singapore's historical links with the UK as a former colony.)

> And don't reference other bug report
> systems, all the information must be entered here.

Okay, but all information is presented here already.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/699886/comments/10

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On 2011-05-14T23:48:58+00:00 Drepper-fsp wrote:

I looked around myself and found nothing resembling the current format.
The patch is applied.  Next time provide a patch with a complete file
name.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/699886/comments/11


** Changed in: glibc
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: glibc
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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