The correct separator for the Finnish time format is . (full stop), however, glibc has it currently as : (colon). To clarify: H.mm.ss (like sv_SE), not hh:mm:ss (like en_US). http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6379382 http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/summary/fi.html (row 2453)
You have to provide evidence in the form of official specification, government publications, or (failing the prior) newspaper websites.
The national standard is SFS 4175, a copy of which is only available for a fee: http://www.sfs.fi/luettelo/sfs.php?standard=SFS+4175 The national broadcasting corporation's news page: http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/ Timetables from the parliament: http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/eduskunta/organisaatio/taysistunto/viikontaysistunnot.htx This is quite embarrassing, I can't actually find many newspapers' web sites which use H.mm http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/kielenopas/5.2.html#klo (an unofficial language guide) refers to the SFS standard and mentions: "in practice the colon is used a lot [...] slightly clearer than the full stop [...] this markup can be recommended for multilingual documents." He goes on using the full stop and colon interchangeably. other: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/locales/Finland-Finnish_Date.pdf I'll see if I can find anything else if more is needed.
The example of the parliament's web page was bad, it showed the US-style format even in the Finnish version. But I dug into it a bit more and there is evidence enough. What I don't understand is why it's done this way since one cannot distinguish the text from a date using the two-digit year notation. In the Swedish locale it is possible.
(In reply to comment #3) > What I don't understand is why it's done this way since one cannot distinguish > the text from a date using the two-digit year notation. You're correct that they look identical for months 10-12, but times are usually prefixed with "kello" or "klo" to remove ambiguity. The four-digit year also seems to be preferred. Dates: 10.2.2008 10.2. (note trailing full stop) 10.2.08 to 10. helmikuuta 2008 Times: 13.37 13.37.42 13.37.42,85 Full: 10.2.2008 klo 13.37 torstai 10. helmikuuta 2008 kello 13.37
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