Re: week description in locales

[Michael Meskes <meskes at debian dot org>]

> > while debugging ncal I found that most (not all) European locales
> > have
> > the week information as "7;19971130;4", However, the comment in C
> > suggests that "ISO 8601 conforming applications should use the
> > values
> > 7, 19971201 (a Monday), and 4 (Thursday), respectively". Now afaik
> > Europe does use ISO 8601 making me wonder if the entries need
> > correction.Â
> >Â...
> the wiki has the current status:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales#LC_TIME
> 
> and the current git should follow that.ÂÂwhich is to say, every
> locale
> should be using 19971130 now as its start date, and all locales use a
> 1 or 4 for the minweeklen.ÂÂall locales use 7 for daysinweek.

Thanks for the explanation. Could we then please remove the comment
from C please?

Michael
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