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

[nicolas.mailhot at laposte dot net]

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

--- Comment #25 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte dot net> ---
>From a change management POW there is no need to redefine defaults.

However, there *is* a need to have format selection happen at the locale name
level. That’s the simplest way both to enable adopters (that will set the new
local and then lobby their distro to select it at install time) and to protect
stragglers (that will do the reverse on systems where a broken app/script can
not accommodate the new format).

UTF8 migration shows local-name-level changes are manageable. And it does not
matter if the old locale identifier corresponds to the old or the new format.

IMHO something finer grained is bound to cause problems because there won’t be
any simple exit hatch for people who have to live with broken scripts or apps.

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