Regression for en_US date_fmt (Bug 25923)

[Rafal Luzynski]

5.05.2020 17:21 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2020-05-05 09:59, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Aurelien,
> > 
> > What do you think about this regression?
> > 
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25923
> 
> Sorry it looks like that I indeed overlooked that change.
> 
> > I'd like to minimize the changes we make to the en_US locale.
> > 
> > Do you think undoing the month and date order change is best?
> 
> I think it's pretty fine if it confuses the user to have the month and
> day order reverted. Now I still believe that date_fmt and d_t_fmt
> should use the same order, so I wonder if both should be swapped, to
> actually match the C locale beside the 12h clock part.

Indeed, according to CLDR [1] the preferred order is m-d-y.  Sorry about
overlooking it here, as well.

Should we swap?  Backport?

Regards,

Rafal

[1] https://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/en/Gregorian/