Weekday/Workday for EU locales in glibc

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 05/23/2012 07:57 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
>
> 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.

There's also http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13223 
speaking about tr_TR.

Not EU - but same problem.

> 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

no objections from me,
Andreas
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