Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> > > Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> > > so far.
> >  I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
> > must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
> > information....
> 
> Hmm... the question is why we dont simply use locales. Thats the POSIX way
> of describing national support and is supported by Java and Unix. Even NT
> has a centryl place to set up things like date, time and currency.
> 
> It has nothing to do with a specific package, it should be asked in the
> libc, like the timezone.

 Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for
no reason, even if it is included in the package as source.