This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: [Bug localedata/16495] nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
- From: Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>
- To: vapier at gentoo dot org <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: libc-locales at sourceware dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:27:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Bug localedata/16495] nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <bug-16495-716 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/> <bug-16495-716-SYVVRPFIBm at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
Hi
I was the original author of the nl_NL locale and I testify that the current locale is wrong, and the
proposed date format is much more acceptable in the Dutch environment.
best regards
keld
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:37:38PM +0000, vapier at gentoo dot org wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16495
>
> Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org> changed:
>
> What |Removed |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Summary|glibc-2.17+ - nl_NL locale |nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle
> |fix for date |year/month around
>
> --- Comment #2 from Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org> ---
> the patch hasn't followed our submission procedure:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist
>
> most notably:
> - it needs to be e-mailed to the libc-alpha@ mailing list
> - it needs citations showing the change is correct. one person saying "i
> think it's wrong" is not sufficient.
>
> we don't care about the impact on scripts that attempt to incorrectly parse
> locale aware scripts like `date | awk`.
>
> --
> You are receiving this mail because:
> You are on the CC list for the bug.