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Re: Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?



On 2019-02-07 21:20:07 +0100 (+0100), Ondřej Surý wrote:
> en_DK.UTF-8 is a good default locale?
[...]

I'm a proponent of en_DK.UTF-8 in general, particularly as it gets
you ISO 8601 date and time when set for LC_TIME. I have trouble with
its inversion (relative to my cultural background) of "," and "." in
numbers so I still use en_US.UTF-8 for my LC_NUMERIC though I gather
there's a good chunk of the World where that syntax considered
perfectly acceptable. I also am not a fan of the modern "dictionary
ordering" and prefer to stick to a traditional greybeard caps-first
sort by using C.UTF-8 as LC_COLLATE.

I have a feeling if you were to ask lots of Debian users, you'd find
a plethora of different frankenlocales like mine reflecting a myriad
of personal preferences, so it may be hard to come up with a real
consensus around a from-scratch default locale. As such, using
en_DK.UTF-8 for this is as good a default as any in my opinion.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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