[RFC][PATCH] Multiple locales: Use the correct date and time formats (bug 10496, 23724).

[Rafal Luzynski]

27.11.2018 23:26 Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Therefore I'm asking community here.  Please provide your feedback:
> should the date and time formats provided by glibc locale data keep the
> constant width of the output (because it makes easier to display lists of
> dates and times in vertical columns, like in log files) or should it be
> allowed to provide variable width formats as well (because it follows
> the local conventions of displaying single dates, standalone, like in
> the user interface)?  Or maybe we should not worry about log files because
> they should not be localized and use only the default C locale for date
> and
> time format?  Mike, Carlos, others?

PING

Any feedback about it?

If there is no further feedback then I'll assume consensus and I'll push
the patches [1] in less than one week.  Thank you Tamuki Shoichi for your
feedback. [2] I understand that variable width dates may look bad in tabular
output like a log listing but also I assume that enforcing constant width
in date and time formats when they are displayed standalone (that means:
only one date or time) may make them unnatural.  As we can't satisfy
both requirements then I'd rather make the standalone formats look better.

Regards,

Rafal

Links:

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00164.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00175.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00041.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00728.html