This is the mail archive of the glibc-bugs@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

[Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |carlos at redhat dot com

--- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #9)
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #8)
> 
> > But not towards ISO 8601.  People use âThu, 2016-03-17 at 15:18 +0000â
> > (taken from <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto/18562>). 
> > But that's not even close to ISO 8601 (which goes far beyond âYYYY-MM-DDâ).
> 
> That's a strawman, the datetime concept does not exist in human language, no
> datetime will ever appear in human sentences (you'll get dates and times,
> the format of which is perfectly appropriate in iso 8601 for humans).
> 
> Besides, iso 8601 is a very flexible spec, and provides for variations
> whenever needed. The W3C profile is just a profile of iso 8601 (for HTML/XML
> code)

Would it suffice to provide C.utf8@iso8601 for the purposes of overriding
LC_TIME and allowing you to use ISO 8601 time representation in the fullest? We
need not duplicate all locales, ISO 8601 is language independent.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]