Re: Date format and ISO 8601

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Hello Aurelien,

Am 13.04.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:

> The bug #402461 [1] says date the current date format is wrong in the
> glibc for the German locale.

I don't think so.  Even if ISO 8601 specifies the YYYY-MM-DD format, it
is actually very uncommon in Germany.  I cannot remember a single letter
that I received with such a date, everybody uses the DD.MM.YYYY format
which has been used for ages.  It may be possible that ISO 8601 is an
attempt to unify date formats in the European Union, but if so it is
<rant> just another act of bureaucracy that institution is so notorious
for.  </rant>

> Before applying the patch, I would like a confirmation from a native
> speaker that the change is correct.

Please do not apply the patch, but send it to another native speaker:
Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer.  If upstream decides that the
German locale should switch to ISO 8601, then Debian should do so as
well; but most German users would probably be unhappy about it.

Kind regards,

Sven