Date: 25 Sep 2004 08:39:11 -0000 From: Peter Wullinger <some-mail-drop@gmx.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: standards/72076: [patch] German locales use old %d.%m.%y date format instead of newer ISO date Message-ID: <20040925083911.4127.qmail@peter.home.wul> Resent-Message-ID: <200409250840.i8P8ePN3093099@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 72076 >Category: standards >Synopsis: [patch] German locales use old %d.%m.%y date format instead of newer ISO date >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-standards >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 25 08:40:25 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Wullinger >Release: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386 >Organization: - >Environment: Any FreeBSD System with locale support. >Description: 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. References: - DIN 5008 - EN 28 601 - ISO 8601 Thanks to Oliver Lietz for bringing this to my attention. >How-To-Repeat: % export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 % date +%x or % export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-1 % date +%x >Fix: Apply the following patch and "make && make install" in /usr/share/timedef --- /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src.orig Sat Sep 25 09:16:23 2004 +++ /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src Sat Sep 25 09:11:59 2004 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ # # x_fmt # -%d.%m.%Y +%Y-%m-%d # # c_fmt # --- /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src.orig Sat Sep 25 09:16:23 2004 +++ /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src Sat Sep 25 09:11:53 2004 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ # # x_fmt # -%d.%m.%Y +%Y-%m-%d # # c_fmt # Port patch for misc/utf8locale pending. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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