svn commit: r193688 - head/share/timedef
Daniel Seuffert
DS at praxisvermittlung24.de
Wed Jun 10 16:21:11 UTC 2009
Oliver Fischer wrote:
> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> 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 do the German doc people think about it?
>
> I share Alexanders opinion. In daily communication the normal date
> format is still %d.%m.%Y and I am sure, it will remain for nearly ever ;-)
>
> Oliver
+1
nobody uses that format and I have never seen that.
- Daniel
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