Bug#959874: locales: default date format for en_DK and other en_* should be improved
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 guess the same argument will apply to other locales, ie that we should
change things that have been like that for decades.
> $ for i in $(locale -a | grep en_); do printf "%-20s" $i; LC_TIME=$i date; done
> en_AG Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_AU Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_AU.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_BW Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_BW.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_CA Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_CA.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_DK Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_DK.iso885915 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_DK.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_GB Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_GB.iso885915 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_GB.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_HK Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_HK.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_IE Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_IE.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_IE@euro Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_IL Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_IN Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_NG Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_NZ Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_NZ.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_PH Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_PH.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_SC.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_SG Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_SG.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_US Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST
> en_US.iso885915 Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST
> en_US.utf8 Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST
> en_ZA Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_ZA.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_ZM Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_ZW Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
> en_ZW.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers unstable-debug
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages locales depends on:
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74
> ii libc-bin 2.30-5
> ii libc-l10n 2.30-5
>
> locales recommends no packages.
>
> locales suggests no packages.
>
> -- debconf information:
> * locales/default_environment_locale: None
> * locales/locales_to_be_generated: All locales
>
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>
>
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