Bug#111268: Svenska språknämnden is a preferrable authority for Swedish as a language

["Göran Uddeborg" <goeran@uddeborg.se>]

Keld Jørn Simonsen writes:
> I believe Sweden is a country where the ISO 8601 standard has also
> become the local standard, as indicated above.

I agree a lot.  ISO 8601 is very much what we use in Sweden.  What I'm
saying is that the separator in times is one of the few exceptions,
where we normally use "." rather than ":".  Not that anybody would be
confused by a time written 12:34.  And you see it is used, in
particular in technical contexts.  But 12.34 is the normal way to
write.  It is also, as I've said, the way recommended by the LANGUAGE
standardisation body, Svenska språknämnden.

For these reasons, I still think the sv locale should use 12.34.
Obviously you think otherwise.  It seems to me we have come to a point
where it is a matter of judgement and opinion.  Like the opinion what
standardisation authority is most appropriate for the locale
definition.  Unless somebody raises some new aspects in this
discussion, I don't think I have more to add here.

Med vänliga hälsningar!
Göran