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[Bug localedata/3768] en_GB should have am/pm representation


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3768

Homer <sourceware at slated dot org> changed:

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                 CC|                            |sourceware at slated dot
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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.gentoo.org/sho
                   |                            |w_bug.cgi?id=411645

--- Comment #7 from Homer <sourceware at slated dot org> 2012-04-12 02:27:21 UTC ---
Not sure where Drepper got this weird notion that am/pm is not "current
every-day use" in the UK. AFAIK nobody except the military uses 24 hour
notation at all over here. Certainly nobody I know personally ever uses it.

Moreover, this feature should not be withheld for biased, ideological reasons.
This is purely a matter of individual preferences, and should not be an
"official" policy that forbids users from seeing the time in their preferred
format, especially when that format is the de facto format for their culture,
as it is here in the UK.

I find the "reasoning" for withholding this feature offensive and nonsensical,
not to mention factually bogus.

Now that Drepper has left the building, please let's just fix this and move on.

Downstream bug (Gentoo) attached.

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