Hello,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:17:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> I don't think so. Even if ISO 8601 specifies the YYYY-MM-DD format, it
> is actually very uncommon in Germany. I cannot remember a single letter
> that I received with such a date, everybody uses the DD.MM.YYYY format
> which has been used for ages. It may be possible that ISO 8601 is an
well, a magazin I wrote something for recently asked me to switch date
in this way; however, this was the first time ever I remember someone
asking me to use this format instead of the way more common d.m.yyy one.
> attempt to unify date formats in the European Union, but if so it is
> <rant> just another act of bureaucracy that institution is so notorious
> for. </rant>
>
> > Before applying the patch, I would like a confirmation from a native
> > speaker that the change is correct.
>
> Please do not apply the patch, but send it to another native speaker:
> Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer. If upstream decides that the
> German locale should switch to ISO 8601, then Debian should do so as
> well; but most German users would probably be unhappy about it.
I strongly agree, especially since Ulrich Drepper is a German speaker.
I very well remember the uniliteral request of the Debian translation
team (I think it was for Sarge) to get proper shell quotes which was
rejected by the (glibc, I believe) maintainer because upstream
rejected it (or something similar, I never got the entire reasoning
straight); so I second the move to remain in sync with upstream.
Greetings
Helge
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