svn commit: r193688 - head/share/timedef

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:38:56PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >  [patch] [locale] German locales use old %d.%m.%y date format  
> >instead of newer ISO date
> >
> >  From the submitter:
> >
> >      DIN 5008 (German norm for text processing) defines the old date
> >      format (%d.%m.%Y) to be obsolete and to be used only, if unambigous.
> >      In international communications the new format (%Y-%m-%d) is now
> >      required and FreeBSD should respect this.
> 
> What does this mean? Does 'date' with the de_DE locate print out Y-m-d  
> instead of d.m.Y now? This would look strange to me, as this is not  
> used in normal daily communications. The government sends letters with  
> dates in d.m.Y, newspapers have d.m.Y, and the daily news in the TV  
> also display d.m.Y.
> 
> The text above specifies that this seems to be intended for  
> international communications. When I set de_DE in my locale for my  
> user, this is not international communication, it's more like "I want  
> to see text/dates in my local language/conventions".
> 
> As the PR is from 2004, and we have 2009 now, I'm not sure if this  
> change is correct. I haven't read the corresponding standards/documents.
> 
> >  PR:		conf/72076
> >  Submitted by:	Peter Wullinger <some-mail-drop at gmx.net>
> >  MFC after:	1 week
> 
> I think you should not MFC this so fast. It may be better to discuss  
> this with our German doc people (docs@ CCed), maybe this needs to be  
> backed out.

What do the German doc people think about it?

Edwin
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