The locales for Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk should have the same date formats. This small script demonstrating that the formats are different: % cat showdates.sh #!/bin/sh for fmt in "" "+%c" "+%x" "+%X" ; do echo "Format '$fmt'" for locale in $* ; do LANG=$locale date $fmt | sed 's/^/ /' done done % sh showdates.sh nb_NO nn_NO Format '' tor apr 3 16:44:26 CEST 2003 to apr 3 16:44:26 CEST 2003 Format '+%c' tor 03-04-2003 16:44:26 CEST 03. apr 2003 kl 16.44 CEST Format '+%x' 03-04-2003 03. apr 2003 Format '+%X' 16:44:26 kl 16.44 CEST I'm trying to find references document what the formats should be.
Well, what is it then? Filing a bug without an answer is not a good thing.
Do you have a patch for this problem?
I'm closing this now. No answer in 2.5 years.
Created attachment 1949 [details] Norwegian bokmaal locale which fixes the problem described
Created attachment 1950 [details] Norwegian nynorsk locale which fixes the problem described
Here are locales which fix the date issue described, therefore reopening the bug.
Created attachment 1951 [details] Added NO-BREAK SPACE as thousand delimiter
Created attachment 1952 [details] Added NO-BREAK SPACE as thousand delimiter
If the output of the latest patch is as mention in http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=102 it is still not correct.
Created attachment 1969 [details] Yet another edition that fixes the issues the last poster had Fixes the issues mentioned by Karl Ove Hufthammer
Created attachment 1970 [details] Fixes the issues the last reporter had Same fix for nb_NO as for nn_NO
The official standard is %d.%m.%Y while %Y-%m-%d is allowable for international correspondence. The site referenced below also states that the format "%d. %B %Y" is more regular in use for written text. ref.: http://www.språkrådet.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=634#dato
I should have just ignored the patches since you deliberately changed the files from a valid format to some garbage. And you added Debian crap in the contact information. But instead I wasted time and fixed the files myself.