Bug 146908

Should the date not be: %Y-%m-%d?
South Africa has adopted ISO 8601 years ago, and while some people still
use various styles, this is the official one.

As a side issue, is the locale file format documented somewhere? I could
not find it quickly?

John
-- 
John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

I've simply translated the glibc af_ZA LC_TIME.  I'm not actually South
African myself.  I was just puzzled at the symlink to en_US which 
obviously does not provide Afrikaans day/month names, and provides a 
date format which is MM/DD which is not used at all in ZA.

See
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/af_ZA?rev=1.14&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country does
report ZA as officially using ISO 8601.

Since you *are* from South Africa, I defer to your local knowledge.
You might like to confer with dwayne@translate.org.za who appears to 
maintain the glibc af_ZA locale (at least he did in 2005)

If ZA officially uses ISO 8601, then perhaps en_ZA/LC_TIME should also 
be created to reflect that.  I notice that en_ZA is not present in 
FreeBSD, and none of the other en_*/LC_TIME files use %Y-%m-%d as x_fmt

> As a side issue, is the locale file format documented somewhere? I could
> not find it quickly.

LC_TIME format is defined in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/timelocal.h as
struct lc_time_T {
       const char      *mon[12];
       const char      *month[12];
       const char      *wday[7];
       const char      *weekday[7];
       const char      *X_fmt;
       const char      *x_fmt;
       const char      *c_fmt;
       const char      *am;
       const char      *pm;
       const char      *date_fmt;
       const char      *alt_month[12];
       const char      *md_order;
       const char      *ampm_fmt;
};

Thanks very much,

Danny

Comment 3 Edwin Groothuis 2010-10-18 11:49:05 UTC

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I'll take care of it.

Comment 4 Eitan Adler 2017-12-31 07:59:50 UTC

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