Weekday/Workday for EU locales in glibc

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Wed May 23 18:10:00 GMT 2012


There's a long standing problem with handling of the first weekday and 
first workday in glibc's various EU locales.  Carlos & I have both 
reviewed ISO 8601 and our reading is that for all EU members Monday is 
the first weekday and first workday.

I'd like to get this addressed in all the EU locales, preferably 
en-masse rather than continuing to fault in a fix for each one when 
someone complains.

The following locales are broken in this regard:
de_BE, de_BE@euro, nl_BE, nl_BE@euro, wa_BE, wa_BE@euro, el_CY,  tr_CY, 
br_FR, br_FR@euro, oc_FR, el_GR, el_GR@euro, en_IE, en_IE@euro, ga_IE, 
ga_IE@euro, it_IT, it_IT@euro, lij_IT, lv_LV, lt_LT, de_LU, de_LU@euro, 
fr_LU, fr_LU@euro, mt_MT, fy_NL, pt_PT, pt_PT@euro, an_ES, eu_ES, 
eu_ES@euro, gl_ES, gs_ES@euro, cy_GB, gd_GB, gv_GB, kw_GB,

ast_ES just needs the first_workday fix.

Unless objections are noted, the plan is to fix these locals on June 6, 
2012.  If you're objecting to a fix, please state specifically which 
locale(s) you believe should not be changed and why.


For reference, the following locals are OK:
de_AT, de_AT@euro, fr_BE, fe_BE@euro, li_BE,  be_BG, cs_CZ, da_DK, 
en_DK, et_EE, fi_FI, fi_FI@euro, sv_FI, sv_FI@euro, ca_FR, fr_FR, 
fr_FR@euro, de_DE, de_DE@euro, fy_DE, hsb_DE, nds_DE, hu_HU,  ca_IT, 
fur_IT, sc_IT, lb_LU, li_NL, nds_NL, nl_NL, nl_NL@euro, csb_PL, pl_PL, 
ro_RO, sl_SI, ca_ES, ca_ES@euro, es_ES, es_ES@euro, sv_SE, en_GB, sk_SK


Jeff



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