[Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME
carlos at redhat dot com
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Fri May 20 13:55:00 GMT 2016
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628
Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #9)
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #8)
>
> > But not towards ISO 8601. People use “Thu, 2016-03-17 at 15:18 +0000”
> > (taken from <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto/18562>).
> > But that's not even close to ISO 8601 (which goes far beyond “YYYY-MM-DD”).
>
> That's a strawman, the datetime concept does not exist in human language, no
> datetime will ever appear in human sentences (you'll get dates and times,
> the format of which is perfectly appropriate in iso 8601 for humans).
>
> Besides, iso 8601 is a very flexible spec, and provides for variations
> whenever needed. The W3C profile is just a profile of iso 8601 (for HTML/XML
> code)
Would it suffice to provide C.utf8@iso8601 for the purposes of overriding
LC_TIME and allowing you to use ISO 8601 time representation in the fullest? We
need not duplicate all locales, ISO 8601 is language independent.
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