Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:59:13PM +0100, bugtracker@slideomania.com wrote:
> LC_TIME= | etch | lenny
> -------------------------------------------------
> de_DE.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007
> en_DK.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007
Is this true. My lenny/sid system gives me (I did LANG=)
de_DE.UTF-8 ---------- | 19. Jan 21:32
en_DK.UTF-8 ---------- | 2007-01-19 21:32
en_DK ---------- | 2007-01-19 21:32
> en_US.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | 2007-01-19 21:32
> POSIX | Jan 19 2007 | Jan 19 2007
> C | Jan 19 2007 | Jan 19 2007
>
> My state of confusion started this morning, when I was confronted with a
> POSIX/C style date format using the German locales on lenny. As you can see
> from the table, in lenny suddenly some locales seem to have changed from ISO
> 8601 style to POSIX/C style. Is this intentional behaviour, or something that
> should be reported as a bug? Again, I consider POSIX/C style to be horrible.
>
> Just for reference, [1] claims that "The locale support for the international
> date standard of yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601 date format) is provided by the locale
> called en_DK, "English in Denmark", which is a bit of joke :-)".
>
> Well, either this *is* a bug in the locales package (well, hope so), or the
> joke from Debian reference needs an update.
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html
> see "9.7.6 ISO 8601 date format locale"
New corresponding pages are:
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch02.en.html#timestamps (released package too)
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch10.en.html#customizeddisplayoftimeanddate (new after this posting)
I now stopped en_DK locale since that was days of woody. Long ago.
Osamu
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