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Bug#604125: Time format for sv_SE should use colon, not period



Package: locales
Version: 2.11.2-7
Severity: normal

The default time format for Sweden should be HH:MM:SS, not HH.MM.SS.

This is the current output from date:
lör 20 nov 2010 14.32.22 CET

Should be:
lör 20 nov 2010 14:32:22 CET


I use these settings:

LC_TIME=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

If I change LC_TIME to en_US.UTF-8, then I get a correct time format.
(Although in english)

LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 date
Sat Nov 20 14:34:56 CET 2010

Here is also a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Sweden

"Times are written without notable exceptions with the 24-hour clock, with
colons as separators (although periods are sometimes used instead of colons,
especially in hand written text, as it was an older Swedish standard),"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-home22 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.11-1]          2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

locales recommends no packages.

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