Weekday/Workday for EU locales in glibc

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 04:27:00 GMT 2012


On 05/24/2012 07:16 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Shouldn't localedata/i18n (although it's not used as template for any
> LC_TIME) and programs/ld-time.c then simply be changed to use the ISO 8601
> defaults?  Because, of all the 377 (on my system here) locales that
> currently use Sunday as first weekday most of them have it only because of
> these defaults.  Only en_US, es_CR, et_EE, ks_IN@devanagari, shs_CA and
> wa_BE set it explicitely, and of those only wa_BE is used as template for
> a further locale's LC_TIME (wa_BE@euro).  That is, 370 locales have first
> weekday=1 just because of the default in programs/ld-time.c.  Nobody can
> tell me that this was a concious decision for each one of these locales,
> rather than just accident.
So I'm happy to go forward with this, but would like to hear from the 
maintainers first.

Jeff



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